QMI-INS-063 · 146 AH
Inscription of … son of ʿAlī, near al-Ruwayshid
نقش … بن علي، قرب الرويشد
Jordanian panhandle, near the town of al-Ruwayshid, northeast Jordan, on the border of the basalt desert (ḥarra) and the inner desert (ḥamād).
- اللهم اغفر
- لـ[....] بن علي
- الكا[..]ـي
- غفر [....]
- وكتب في سنة
- ست وأربعين
- ومائة
O God, forgive … son of ʿAlī al-Kā…ī forgive … And he wrote in the year six and forty and one hundred.
A prayer for forgiveness dated 146 AH (763–764 CE). The inscription was recorded in 2018 by the Badia Epigraphic Survey, led by Ali Al-Manaser and Michael Macdonald, near al-Ruwayshid in the Jordanian panhandle, and published by Ilkka Lindstedt in 2024. Lindstedt notes that the reading of the content and of the writer’s name is uncertain, but that the text appears to be a standard early Islamic graffito asking for God’s forgiveness. Although lines 1–4 are rather effaced, the year in lines 5–7 is easy to read.
Source: Lindstedt, Ilkka. “Early Islamic Inscriptions from Northeast Jordan.” Studia Orientalia Electronica 12 (2024): 35–66, DOI 10.23993/store.136123, p. 42, no. 1, fig. 1.