Herrmann’s text and restoration.

2 ? Σεβ]α̣στήν̣: the end of the last line. Traces of letters from the preceding line are visible.

Herrmann’s commentary summarized:

The monumentality and the shape of the letters support the assumption that the fragment belonged to the base of a statue representing an empress. Herrmann wonders whether that statue belonged to the ensemble representing members of the imperial family that was probably erected under Claudius (see no. 333 comm.). Two Augustae are possible:

1) Livia, as Claudius’s grandmother, after her divinization: [Θεὰν (Ἰουλίαν) Σεβ]αστήν? See U. Hahn, Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses… (Saarbrücker Stud. z. Archäol. u. Alten Gesch. 8, 1994), pp. 34–105, 322–34. Livia appears on a Sardian coin after the earthquake of 17 AD (Hahn, pp. 46, 328, no. 64; P. Herrmann, REA 1998, p. 507 = Ausgew. Schriften, p. 210, with n. 36).

2) Claudius’s mother Antonia Minor (Hahn, pp. 118–25, 336–37; for the date she received the name Augusta: ibid., p. 122 n. 19. SEG 31, 915: Ἀντωνίαν Σεβαστήν [Aphrodisias]). See Sardis VII 1, no. 37, which was probably for Claudius’s daughter Antonia; and new restorations by P. Herrmann, “Sardeis zur Zeit der iulisch-claudischen Kaiser” (in Forschungen in Lydien, ed. E. Schwertheim [1995 = AMS 17], pp. 21–36 = Herrmann, Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 147–68), pp. 33–34 = Herrmann, Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 161–62: Ἀντω[νίαν τὴν Τι]/βερίου [Κλαυδί]/ου Καί[σαρος Σε]/(4)βαστο[ῦ Γερμα]/νικ[οῦ τοῦ αὐτο/κράτορος θυγα/τέρα ὁ δῆμος / (8) καθιέρωσεν].

In any event, the final position of Σεβαστήν is noteworthy.