QMI-INS-050k · Last decade of the 1st c. AH (c. 90–99)
Inscription of Mahdī ibn Rabīʿah, of the Troops of Ifrīqiyah, Kos
نقش مهدي بن ربيعة من أهل إفريقية، قوص
Psalidi, Church of Saint Gabriel, Kos (Cos), Dodecanese, Greece
- ترحم الله
- مهدي بن ربيعة
- الرعيني ثم البناني
- وهو من أهل
- إفريقية
May God have mercy on Mahdī ibn Rabīʿah al-Ruʿaynī, then al-Bunānī, who is of the troops of Ifrīqiyah.
A prayer for mercy for Mahdī ibn Rabīʿah al-Ruʿaynī, then al-Bunānī, “who is of the people of Ifrīqiyah”, on the first column of the Church of Saint Gabriel at Psalidi, Kos. Its upper right part is overlapped by the dated graffito QMI-INS-050b (Muḥarram 98 AH). The graffito was unpublished before Imbert’s study.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, 747–748, graffito K2, photo 9, fig. 9.