The Jebel Usays inscription (or Jabal Usays, Jabal Says) is a small rock graffito dating to 528 AD, located at the site of Jabal Says, an ancient volcano in the basaltic steppe lands of southern Syria.
[5] The inscription was first published in facsimile without a photograph by Muḥammad Abū ʾl-Faraj al-ʿUshsh in 1964.
The Jebel Usays inscription was engraved on ashlar close to the summit of a volcano.
[8] The inscription claims to be written by one 'Ruqaym son of Maarrif the Awsite' dispatched by the Jafnid leader (phylarch) Al-Harith ibn Jabalah to act as a frontier guard at Jabal Says.
[5] The Jebel Says inscription has a similar syntactic form to the Harran inscription (topic (first person singular personal pronoun) / comment; "I so-and-so, I did such-and-such"), another inscription written a few decades later also in the Paleo-Arabic script.