EXPLORATIONS IN NOVAE (Pavlina Vladkova – pavlina_v@yahoo.com) The explorations were carried out to the southeast of the basilica. Walls of the end of the 6th century AD, later than the basilica, were discovered. A water-conduit and a drain of the first half of the 5th century AD were explored. The terracotta water-pipes are 50 cm in diameter, held together with mortar. A room, measuring 9 m by 9 m with a floor of bricks, and a portico, 3.50 m in width with a floor of fragmentary building ceramics and trampled clay, constructed on a stylobate, were discovered. Both constructions date to the 4th century AD. A wall of a room with a hypocaust of brick columns, dated after AD 250, was explored. A drain containing finds from the late 2nd to mid 3rd centuries AD, 7.50 m in length, 36 cm in depth and 40 cm in width, was discovered. The northeastern corner of a room and part of an exedra were explored. The walls are 1 m in width. The room probably belonged to baths dated to the first half of the 2nd century AD. A terracotta lamp with a stamp that reads STROBILI and fragments of glass vessels were found. Four rooms with hypocausts of brick columns were discovered in the Western Sector, to the west of room D with wall paintings. Rooms D and E measure 9 m by 4.50 m and have floors of mortar. Rooms D2 and E2 are 4.50 m in length. Fragments of wall paintings, window glass, and white and color marble tiling were found. The architectural complex dates to the 3rd century AD. A drain was discovered to the north of the complex. Sherds of the 6th century AD were found above the drain. The southern wall of a tower, 4.10 m in length, was explored. The walls are 80 cm in width, constructed of ashlars. The floor is of bricks covered with two plasters of clay and mortar.