@article{a2cdb4dab7f54eec9519af47a175b598,
title = "An early Christian Arabic graffito mentioning {\textquoteleft}Yazīd the king{\textquoteright}",
abstract = "This article is an edition and commentary on an early Christian Arabic inscription discovered near Qaṣr Burquʿ in northeastern Jordan. The text mentions a certain yzydw ʾl-mlk {\textquoteleft}Yazid the king{\textquoteright} and could date to the sixth or seventh century. We discuss the text's palaeography, its relevance for the history of the Arabic script, and attempt to identify the historical figure to which it refers.",
keywords = "Arabic palaeography, Christian Arabic, Umayyad, graffiti, pre-Islamic Arabic",
author = "Younis al-Shdaifat and Ahmad Al-Jallad and Zeyad al-Salameen and Rafe Harahsheh",
note = "Funding Information: This project was led by Zeyad al-Salameen, Younis al-Shdaifat, and Rafe Harahsheh and was made possible by the kind and generous support received from al-Hussein Bin Talal University and Mutah University who sponsored the entire project. We thank the Department of Antiquities of Jordan for giving permission to conduct this survey. Ahmad Al-Jallad thanks the leaders of this survey for allowing him to study this text. We thank Sean Anthony, Francois de Blois, Michael Macdonald, La€ıla Nehm{\'e}, Marijn van Putten, J{\'e}r{\^o}me Norris, and Mehdy Shaddel for reading and discussing an earlier draft of this paper with us. Their contributions are acknowledged in the footnotes. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 The Authors. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
year = "2017",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1111/aae.12105",
language = "English",
volume = "28",
pages = "315--324",
journal = "Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy",
issn = "0905-7196",
publisher = "Blackwell Munksgaard",
number = "2",
}