QMI-INS-003b · c. 29 AH

Second Inscription of Yazīd ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Sulūlī

النقش الثاني ليزيد بن عبد الله السلولي

Wādī al-Khushaybah, Najrān region

  1. الهم (اللهم) اغفر ليزيد بن
  2. عبد اله (الله) السلولي

O God, forgive Yazīd ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Sulūlī.

A second, shorter text by Yazīd ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Sulūlī, cut near his inscription dated Jumādā 29 AH (QMI-INS-003). This one asks for forgiveness rather than mercy and carries no date. Because it is by the same man, on the same rock face, and in the same early hand, it is placed here at about 29 AH; the date is an estimate.

Source: Reading as supplied for the catalog. The text is noted beside no. 3 in Kawatoko, Mutsuo. “Masḥ Athārī fī Janūb wa-Gharb al-Mamlakah al-ʿArabīyah al-Saʿūdīyah.” Aṭlāl 18 (2005): 146. See also Maysāʾ bint ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghabbān, “Naqsh al-Sulūlī min Najrān al-muʾarrakh bi-sanat 29 hijriyyah: dirāsah fī maḍmūnihi wa-dalālatihi al-tārīkhiyyah,” Majallat al-Khalīj li-l-tārīkh wa-l-āthār (Jamʿiyyat al-tārīkh wa-l-āthār, Majlis al-taʿāwun li-duwal al-Khalīj al-ʿarabiyyah) 19 (Rabīʿ al-ākhir 1445 / April 2024): 181–223.

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