Description: Plain white marble statue base, with hole and pouring channel on top (w: 0.55 × h: 1.32 × d: 0.485).

Text: Inscribed on one face. The block is complete, although the upper edge is chipped; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.

Letters: Lines 1-17, 0.03; lines 18-22, 0.025. Star for stop, line 5; dot for stop elsewhere. Stops for abbreviation.

Date: Third century CE (lettering, nomenclature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West Gate: re-used in the west gate

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1991)

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

...? [honoured? Ulpia Carminia]] Claudiane, daughter of the city, mother of the senators M(arcus) Ulp(ius) Car(minius) Claudianus, high priest of Asia, high priest (of the city) and Ulp(ia) Cl(audia) Car(minia) Prokle, daughter of the city, high priestess of Asia twice, high priestess (of the city), (both of them) priests for life of the goddess Aphrodite, descended from high priests of Asia and high priests (of the city), cousin of senatorials and consulars. M(arcus) Aur(elius) Zenobios, fourth of the name from Zenobios son of Artemidoros, son of Epaphroditos, priest for life of the divine Loves, oversaw provision (of the monument).

French translation

Translation source: AE

[--- (a/ont honoré) Ulpia Carminia] Claudiana, fille de la cité, mère de sénateurs, archiereia d'Asie, fille de l'archiereus d'Asie et archiereus M. Ulpius Carminius Claudianus et d'Ulpia Claudia Carminia Procula, fille de la cité, archiereia d'Asie et deux fois archiereia, comptant parmi ses ancêtres des prêtres à vie de la déesse Aphrodite, des archiereis d'Asie et archiereis, cousine de sénateurs et d'anciens consuls, par les soins de M. Aurelius Zènobios, descendant, quatrième du nom, de Zènobios fils d'Artémidôros Épaphroditos, prêtre à vie des dieux Amours

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