QMI-INS-050h · Last decade of the 1st c. AH (c. 90–99)
Inscriptions of Yazīd ibn Sufyān al-ʿAkkī and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Misk, Cnidus
نقشا يزيد بن سفيان العكي وعبد الله بن مسك، قندوز
Cnidus (Knidos), south-western Turkey; marble pavement of the nave of the Byzantine church (5th–6th c.), near the choir
- Graffito 1: اللهم [ا]غفر ليزيد بن سفين (كذا)
- العكي
- Graffito 2: اللهم اغفر لـ عبد (كذا)
- لله (كذا)
- ابن مسك
Graffito 1: O God, forgive Yazīd ibn Sufyān al-ʿAkkī. Graffito 2: O God, forgive ʿAbd Allāh ibn Misk.
Two prayers for forgiveness on the same pavement slab at Cnidus, for Yazīd ibn Sufyān al-ʿAkkī and for ʿAbd Allāh ibn Misk. The nisba al-ʿAkkī is clearly legible on the right-hand slab. Imbert takes it to indicate an origin in the coastal town of ʿAkkā (Acre).
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, 740–741, ensemble C5, photo 5, fig. 5.