LIBRI

Journal of Epigraphy, Translation and Review

LIBRI: Journal of Epigraphy, Translation and Review is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal published since 2015 under the direction of an independent scholarly board of expert epigraphers, classical philologists, and ancient historians affiliated with leading Turkish universities, principally Akdeniz University. As a specialized platform, LIBRI aims not merely to publish Greek and Latin epigraphic documents from ancient and late antique Anatolia, but to recontextualize them within their critical, philological, and historical frameworks. The journal treats the production, transmission, and reinterpretation of epigraphic data as an integrated process, and is committed to closing the methodological gap between primary source material and scholarly interpretation. Anatolia ranks among the richest and most dynamic epigraphic landscapes of the ancient world: from the Archaic period through Late Antiquity, nearly one thousand new inscriptions are documented and published each year (approximately 400 to 600 as editiones principes, with the remainder comprising addenda, corrigenda, and emendationes). LIBRI is specifically positioned to channel this extraordinary reservoir of primary evidence into international scholarly circulation.

LIBRI: Journal of Epigraphy, Translation and Review aims to situate Anatolia’s multi-layered epigraphic heritage within the broader historical and cultural dynamics of the Mediterranean world, thereby enabling local primary source material to make theoretical and methodological contributions to international scholarship on the ancient world. The journal is committed to serving as a sustainable academic platform (open to both established and early-career scholars) that fosters critical inquiry, philological rigor, and methodological transparency. Given that epigraphy remains a niche discipline in Turkey, with a limited number of active practitioners and few dedicated publication venues, LIBRI has adopted the editorial principle of not restricting contributors of demonstrable scholarly merit from publishing in consecutive issues. This policy is designed to sustain the continued development of the discipline and to ensure the uninterrupted integration of Anatolia’s rich epigraphic record into broader academic discourse.

The publication scope of LIBRI is built upon three complementary primary focus areas centered on the discipline of epigraphy. The journal’s first and priority area is the presentation to the scholarly world of new inscriptions documented as a result of surveys and archaeological excavations conducted in Anatolia and its environs (editiones principes). This main axis is supported by analytical studies containing additions (addenda), corrections (corrigenda), interpretive improvements (emendationes), and redating proposals on known inscriptions. As its second focus area, LIBRI aims to re-evaluate the historical contexts of texts by providing a space for annotated and critical translation studies (fontes) in which Greek and Latin primary sources spanning from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity are examined with philological rigor. The journal’s third and complementary focus area consists of critical reviews (Critical Reviews) of books and articles published recently (preferably within the relevant year and the preceding year) in the literature of ancient studies. These reviews are designed not merely as book promotions, but as academic assessments that contribute to the literature and encompass methodological discussions.

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The  articles, reviews and translations, process of which are completed is published on the web site of the journal (libridergi.org) within the relevant issue (Volume XII: January-December 2026) throughout the year. The issue of the relevant year is completed at the end of the month of December. The authors are responsible for the content of their work.

Translations

LIBRI I-XI