EXPLORATIONS IN THE NECROPOLIS OF APOLLONIA (Krastina Panaiotova – kpanayotova@abv.bg, Dimitar Nedev, Krasimir Nikov, Martin Giuzelev) A water-conduit of the end of the 5th – beginning of the 4th century BC was uncovered, 64 m in length. The necropolis is located from the both sides of an ancient road, 6.50 – 7 m in width, and is separated in family parcels surrounded by walls. Two hundred and seventy-six graves from the mid 5th to the end of the 3rd centuries BC were discovered. Eight graves were cremation burials. The cremations in six graves were performed outside the funerary spaces and two cremations were performed inside the burial pits. The inhumations were predominantly in burial pits. Krepides were built above some graves. Remains of wooden coffins were found. Two inhumation burials were inside dolia and three inhumations of small children were inside amphorae. Roofs of tiles, some with stamps (НРА, ΣТ) and graffiti, were discovered above five graves. There were cist graves, too. Four graves were built of ashlars connected with clamps and had floors of slabs. Their walls were painted in red. The deceased were placed on their back. Three newborn babies were placed in a Hocker position. The grave goods include lekythoi, alabastra, amphoriskoi, unguentaria, askoi, pyxides, lebetes, amphorae (from Chios, Thasos, Heraklea Pontica, etc.), a red-figure krater with Dionysiac scenes, oinochoai, kylikes, skyphoi, kantharoi, terracotta figurines (showing Athena, Herakles, Aphrodite, Eros, etc.), bronze fibulae, strigils, mirrors, pyxides, earrings, finger-rings, a gold bead and an earring, bronze and silver coins (minted by Apollonia Pontica, Athens, Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great), a Carneol Scarab, etc. Sixty-four ritual hearths were discovered. Twenty-one funerary stelae containing names of Ionic Greeks who died in the end of the 5th – beginning of the 4th centuries BC were found. One stela has an epitaph in hexameter.