EXPLORATIONS IN APOLLONIA (Krastina Panaiotova – kpanayotova@abv.bg, Martin Giuzelev) A sector of the water conduit, consisting of 27 terracotta pipes connected with lead clamps, was discovered at 19.10 m length. It functioned during the late 5th and the beginning of the 4th centuries BC. During the middle of the 5th century BC, the necropolis was limited by a ditch dug from the side towards the see. The ditch partly coincides with the later peribolos. Seventy-four graves, eight ritual hearths and dozens of piles of fragmentary amphorae and pottery, dated from the middle of the 5th to the end of the 3rd century BC, were discovered. Only two graves were cremations performed outside the burial space. The cremated remains were placed in an urn and a red-figure pelike. The burial pits without covering slabs and with inhumations were the most numerous funerary constructions (70.3 %). Remains of wooden coffins were documented in 11 burial pits. A new born baby was buried inside an amphora. Two graves with inhumation burials were constructed of tegulae, some of them with stamps HΜ and Σ. Two graves with inhumation burials were constructed of stones. Five graves with inhumation burials were cists. The deceased were rested supine (70 individuals), or in a Hocker position (2 individuals), while 43 of the deceased individuals were oriented to the east. The grave goods include lekythoi, alabastra, unguentaria, imported and local red-figure and black-gloss pottery (one of them with graffito that reads ΑΙΔΙΣΚΗ), and amphorae; terracotta lamps, loom weights and spindle whorls; terracotta figurines of deities, a satyr and animals; bronze needles, tweezers, fibulae, strigils and mirrors; silver, bronze and iron finger-rings, earrings and a bracelet; and bronze coins of Apollonia mostly used as Charon’s obols. The majority of amphorae were from Heraclea Pontica and Thasos. Eight inscribed funerary stelae of the end of 5th and the beginning of the 4th centuries BC were discovered. The most common name among the deceased is IΣΤΙΑΙΟΣ. The ritual hearths contained bones from sheep and goats, burned hazelnuts, almonds and figs, terracotta grills for fish and ichthyai.