QMI-INS-050f · Last decade of the 1st c. AH (c. 90–99)
Inscription of Sharaḥīl ibn Rafīʿ, Cnidus
نقش شرحيل بن رفيع، قندوز
Cnidus (Knidos), south-western Turkey; marble pavement of the nave of the Byzantine church (5th–6th c.), near the choir, near the altar
- اللهم اغفر لشر
- حيل بن رفيع ال[عك]ي (؟)
- من أهل
- [فل]سطين
O God, forgive Shara- ḥīl ibn Rafīʿ al-ʿAkkī (?), of the troops of Palestine.
A prayer for forgiveness for Sharaḥīl ibn Rafīʿ, “of the people of Palestine”, on the pavement near the altar of the church at Cnidus. The graffito was unpublished before Imbert’s study.
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, 738–739, graffito C3, photo 3, fig. 3.