diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 546a071c67..4b761c6d19 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
  * Fix Down nodes counter in nodetool describecluster (CASSANDRA-18512)
  * Remove unnecessary shuffling of GossipDigests in Gossiper#makeRandomGossipDigest (CASSANDRA-18546)
 Merged from 3.11:
+ * Add keyspace and table name to exception message during ColumnSubselection deserialization (CASSANDRA-18346)
 Merged from 3.0:
  * Suppress CVE-2023-2976 (CASSANDRA-18562)
  * Remove dh_python use in Debian packaging (CASSANDRA-18558)
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/filter/ColumnSubselection.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/filter/ColumnSubselection.java
index dbb415a085..0358bd6f5f 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/filter/ColumnSubselection.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/filter/ColumnSubselection.java
@@ -195,10 +195,14 @@ public abstract class ColumnSubselection implements Comparable<ColumnSubselectio
             {
                 // If we don't find the definition, it could be we have data for a dropped column, and we shouldn't
                 // fail deserialization because of that. So we grab a "fake" ColumnMetadata that ensure proper
-                // deserialization. The column will be ignore later on anyway.
+                // deserialization. The column will be ignored later on anyway.
                 column = metadata.getDroppedColumn(name);
                 if (column == null)
-                    throw new UnknownColumnException("Unknown column " + UTF8Type.instance.getString(name) + " during deserialization");
+                {
+                    String errorMsg = String.format("Unknown column %s in table %s.%s during deserialization",
+                                                    UTF8Type.instance.getString(name), metadata.keyspace, metadata.name);
+                    throw new UnknownColumnException(errorMsg);
+                }
             }
 
             Kind kind = Kind.values()[in.readUnsignedByte()];