The "Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten" (Stone epigrams from the Greek East) contains material from Asia Minor and the Orient, and provide texts carved in stone in an edition which includes translations, critical apparatus, commentary and bibliography. In volumes 1-4, 2122 Greek and Latin texts from Asia Minor and the Orient, of the period up to the 7th century A.D., have been reproduced, translated, annotated, and illustrated (approximately 700 illustrations). The index volume contains indexes of places, poems, poem beginnings, subjects, a concordance and above all, a list of personal names (pages 202 - 309) - Inscriptions are the best source of names (approximately 8000 occurring in our epigrams). Volume 5 also contains Addenda et Corrigenda (pages 17-49) with 29 new epigrams and an index of all additions and corrections (pages 1-16) with short additions.

Frühmittelalterliche Studien is considered by the editors as a forum of comprehensive medieval studies. The yearbook is intended to help to overcome the division of a diverse tradition, which bears witness to the same inseparable contexts expressed in different ways, into conventional specialist fields of work of a conventional subject classification. Whilst maintaining the viewpoints of each specialist subject, a synthesis brings together disciplines which deal with traditional cultural groups or study closely related phenomena which can only be understood in a broader context. This is why the Frühmittelalterliche Studien attaches great importance to contributions that place a specific problem or perspective in a broad context.