THE NECROPOLIS OF APOLLONIA (Krastina Panaiotova – kpanayotova@abv.bg, Martin Giuzelev, Dimitar Nedev) The water-conduit of terracotta pipes, which functioned during the end of the 5th and beginning of the 4th centuries BC, was further explored. The water-conduit run into a tunnel cut into the bedrock and a gallery, which was revealed for 57 m in length. It has three shafts and an entrance. During the first half of the 4th century BC the necropolis was organized in family plots walled with a peribolos. A monumental funerary monument, consisting of a sarcophagus with a chamber painted in red and two cist graves, dated to the mid 4th century BC, was discovered. Ritual hearths and 221 graves of the second half of the 5th – 3rd centuries BC were explored. Six cremation burials were performed outside the graves. The ashes and the grave goods were placed in a red-figure pelike, an amphora of the Cypriot type and ceramic urns. The burial pits prevail in the inhumation graves. Wooden coffins were placed in some of the burial pits. Three inhumation burials were performed in dolia. A newly born baby was buried in an amphora. Some tiles from the the grave constructions have stamps (ΛΑ, ТH, ΣΤ). There are graves constructed of stones or slabs. The walls, the floors and the roofs of three graves were constructed of ashlars held together with iron clamps. Some burial chambers were painted in red. The deceased lay on their back with hands stretched along the body. Burials in a Hocker position are rare. The deceased were predominantly oriented to the east. Some funerary stelae bear the names of the buried Ionian Greeks, e.g. ΕΚΑΤΑΙΟΣ. The finds from the necropolis include alabastra, amphoriskoi, unguentaria, lekythoi (some of them produced in the circle of the Apollonian painter), jugs, pelikai, oinochoai, ichthyai, lekanai, askoi, amphorae (predominantly of Herakleia Pontica and Thasos), a calyx-krater, dishes with graffiti containing maledictions, terracotta lamps, terracotta figurines, needles, fibulae, arrowheads, knifes, strigils, mirrors, finger-rings (one of them silver with inscription that reads ΚΟΙΛΑ), earrings, a funerary wreath, bronze coins (predominantly minted in Apollonia), lead boukrania, a diaulos, terracotta fish grills etc.