EMPORION PISTIROS (Zofia Archibald – z.archibald@liverpool.ac.uk) The explorations in trenches B21 and D/19-24 continued. Part of a house complex, situated in the northeastern part of Pistiros, was documented in trench D24. During the previous excavations, floor levels of the second (c. 370 – 280 BC) and the third (c. 280 – 100 BC) phases of the emporion were documented there. The aims of the present explorations were to specify whether any earlier constructions of the first phase (450 – 370 BC) existed on that place. Two looms weights and sherds were found. Houses and workshops, situated to the south of the central street of Pistiros, were discovered in trench B21. The floor levels that were reached, dated to the beginning of the second phase (370 – 350 BC). Fragmentary burned wattle-and-daub was found. Part of the fragments had traces from red paint, which was used for decoration of the interior walls. Pits containing dolia were explored outside the burned construction. A pit containing a Greek amphora was also discovered. Foundations of a decorated clay altar were discovered in the northwestern part of the trench. Pieces of copper slag, a needle and a fragment of bracelet were found close to the hearth. Of special interest was a pyramid terracotta loom weight showing the images of the lighting of Zeus, a schematic female figure, a pentagram surrounded by smaller pentagrams, the caduceus of Hermes, etc., while several Greek letters were depicted on the bottom of the weight.