Arabic Graffito Near Karbala In Iraq, 64 AH / 683-684 CE

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First Composed: 30th September 2000

Last Modified: 30th September 2000

Date

Shawwāl, 64 AH / 683-684 CE.

Size & Script

Kufic script.

Contents

The translation of the inscription is:

1. In the name of Allāh, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

2. Allāh is the greatest Great.

3. May Allāh be abundantly thanked and May Allāh be praised

4. morning and evening * O Lord Of

5. Gabriel, Michael and

6. Isrāfīl, forgive Layth (?) Ibn Yazīd

7. al-As‘adi his early

8. sins and the ones that followed and (forgive) whoever says

9. Amīn. Amīn, O Lord of the worlds.

10. I wrote this inscription in

11. (the month of) Shawwāl in the year four and

12. sixty.

Location

Not known, presumably in the Iraq Museum.

References

[1] ‘Izz al-Dīn al-Sanduq, "Hajar Hafnat al-Abyad", Sumer, 1955, Volume 11, pp. 213-218.

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