The epigraphic survey was conducted simultaneously in the city of Dinar and in the villages of the region.  Our goal was both to identify and localise unedited inscriptions and to rediscover inscriptions which had been the object of prior publication.  Each inscription was measured, described, copied and photographed, and its geographical coordinates were added to the GIS database.  During the campaigns of 2008 and 2009, we discovered 57 unedited inscriptions; nearly all, with one lone exception, date to the Roman period.  The single pre-Roman inscription represents a find that is unique not only for Kelainai, but equally for the whole region, inasmuch as it is a stone inscription in the Lydian language.  Despite the very fragmentary character and brevity of the text, it is possible to identify not only the alphabet, but likewise the language of the inscription.  It is likely a votive inscription, which dates to the fifth or fourth centuries B.C.  It is the most ancient inscription ever found at Kelainai/Apamea, and also represents the first Lydian inscription found in this region.

Among the other unedited inscriptions, one must note a beautiful Latin dedication to Asclepius and Hygieia, made by Marcus Antonius Baebianus,procurator portuum quadrigesimae provinciae Asiae, high Roman functionary, procurator of the quarter-district of Asia, as well as many honorific inscriptions. Also, we have found two inscriptions in honour of Proclus Manneius Ruso, a major benefactor of the city, already attested in a prior inscription; they deal with the same honorary decree, recopied on each stone, which was issued by the people, the Senate, and the Roman citizens of the city.  We have, finally, many funerary inscriptions.  They have provided precious information for the prosopographic and onomastic study of the inhabitants of Apamea, notably concerning the presence of Roman citizens in the population.

Twenty-five of the inscriptions found during our studies proved to have been already identified and published.  The study of the originals of these inscriptions has enabled us not only to establish their actual state of preservation, but equally to check the published texts, which could be, in certain cases, refined or corrected.

The unpublished inscriptions discovered during our surveys will be the object of specific publications (in progress) and will then be included in an exhaustive corpus of inscriptions of Kelainai/Apamea.  This corpus will be initially prepared in the form of an information database in the format PETRAE, and then in the form of a printed edition.  The corpus is being prepared joinly by Askold Ivantchik and Alain Bresson.