QMI-INS-016b · 76 AH
Inscription of a Friday, 76 AH, al-Madīnah
نقش يوم الجمعة سنة ست وسبعين، المدينة
al-Madīnah region
- هذا ا
- لكتب يوم الجمعة
- من سنة ست وسبعين
This wri- ting [was made] on Friday, in the year seventy-six.
A dated record from the Medina region, cut on a dark boulder. Above it are further lines that are now effaced and cannot be read; the reading given here covers only the last three lines, which survive clearly. The part that can be read names no person and asks for nothing; it says only that “this writing” was made on a Friday in the year 76. Whatever the effaced lines contained, a name or a prayer, these three lines are its closing date. The word al-kitāb is written without its long alif (lktb) and is divided across the line end after the first letter of the article (a-/lktb), a habit of early scribes also seen in the letter of Muʿāwiyah at al-Ḥanākiyah, where Marwān’s name is broken in the same way (QMI-INS-007b).
Source: al-Mughadhdhawī, Muḥammad (@mohammed93athar), Nawādir al-āthār wa-l-nuqūsh, photograph dated 10 July 2023. Reading by Ahmed W. Shaker.