Description: Plain white marble base with a very slight offsetting down both sides, lacking a moulded top which might have carried the first line of the text. Broken above and below, but the lower left corner survives, and without any moulding (w: 0.505 × h: 0.83 × d: 0.57).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.035–0.04; diaeretic dots around the second iota in line 3, final epsilon in line 8, and final alpha in line 12; dot after the final alpha in line 6, between the sigma and zeta in line 9, and at beginning and end of letters in line 13.

Date: Probably later second to early third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: Stray find near Tea House

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1978)

Translation

[The Council and the People honoured] Claudia Paulina, daughter of [Tiberius] Claudius Ise[c. 4] and Daughter of the City, wife of Tiberius Claudius Paulinus high priest; she lived in an orderly and self-controlled manner and with a view to demonstrating virtue.

French translation

Translation source: AE

Le Conseil et le peuple ont honoré Claudia Paulina, fille de Tiberius Claudius Is[---] et de la cité, femme de l’archiereus Tiberius Claudius Paulinus, qui a mené une vie convenable et sage, en modèle de vertu

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