Lane-Poole — On an Arabic Inscription from Rhodesia. 51 



wlieii the Zeydls established themselves north of Zanzibar, but also 

 much further south, is implied by the inscription which has reached 

 us from Rhodesia. The text, chiselled on a small slab of white 

 marble, is quite legible : — 



jj!i\ AJ&. *L. ^lXs. <dS^ ^^^ 



l::-,]! .Is J, i i'lLtf ^^ a L- 



j^**/««j» i>w.<o- j.»i^»r«iO.]j I . ^ ^r^~ 



^\ 



(The pointing in the original is reproduced above. There are no 

 points to fj,,.^cj>~ or to the i! of <L-: or to *Jx . ^-.i.^jx).ll omits 

 the first A, and has superfluous dots under ^.) 



Translation : — 



In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. 

 Tliere is no god hut God. Mohammad is the apostle of God, 

 God bless and save him/ And this [is'] the tomb 

 of Salldm ibn Saldh [who] had forsaken 

 this world for the Last Abode, and was [i.e. after] 

 the Hijra of the Prophet of the faithful five and ninety 

 years. The sentence ends. And God is all -knowing. 

 God. 



There are several grammatical errors in the text. jj^\ jjb 

 should of course be Jj ^ jji, . It has been suggested that it may 



