QMI-INS-050d · 99 AH
Inscription of an Expedition, Kos
نقش غزوة، قوص
Psalidi, Church of Saint Gabriel, Kos (Cos), Dodecanese, Greece
- … ومنوا (؟) عطا[ء] … بن سعد ال…
- … مشركين في غزوة …
- … سنة تسع وتسعين
- نصر الله والفتح
- العظيم من المحرّم (؟)
… and they … ʿAṭāʾ … son of Saʿd al-… … polytheists during the expedition of … … in the year 99 The help of God and the glorious victory! … the great (?), of Muḥarram (?)
A graffito on a column of the Church of Saint Gabriel at Kos, mentioning an expedition (ġazwa) against “the polytheists” (mushrikūn) and dated to the year 99 AH (718–719 CE). The reading is very lacunary: the beginnings of most lines are lost, and the word that follows ġazwa and the name of the expedition cannot be identified. Imbert proposes an unidentified place-name for it.
Source: Imbert, Frédéric. “Graffiti arabes de Cnide et de Kos : premières traces épigraphiques de la conquête musulmane en mer Égée.” In Constructing the Seventh Century, ed. Constantin Zuckerman, Travaux et Mémoires 17 (Paris, 2013), 731–758, 746–747, graffito K1, photo 8, fig. 8. Unpublished before this study (graffito inédit).