QMI-INS-058 · 136 AH
Dated Inscription West of Ḥāʾil
نقش مؤرخ غرب حائل
A qāʿ (low basin) among small hills inside the Nafūd, west of the city of Ḥāʾil, Saudi Arabia
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An early Islamic inscription dated by the publisher to 136 AH (753–754 CE), at the beginning of the ʿAbbāsid period. It lies in a qāʿ among small hills inside the Nafūd, west of the city of Ḥāʾil. The publisher describes the place as a catchment for rain-water from which travellers on this route took water.
Source: Mishārī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nashmī, post on X, 6 December 2022 (photographs and date).