The Rīʿ al-Zallālah inscription is a pre-Islamic Paleo-Arabic inscription, likely dating to the 6th century, located near Taif, in a narrow pass that connects this city to the al-Sayl al- Kabīr wadi.
The Ṭāʾif- Mecca epigraphic survey led by Ahmad Al-Jallad and Hythem Sidky returned to the site in August 2021 and produced new photographs of the inscription, which was finally published with a new edition in 2022.
The inscription reads[1]:Transcription: brk- [k]m rb-nʾ ʾnʾ .rh br sd Arabic: ىركم رىىا اىا .ره ىر سد English: may our Lord bless you I am {Q}rh
It also invokes the deity as rb (Rabb), "Lord", which, like the use of brk, represents standard monotheistic vocabulary seen in the pre-Islamic South Arabia from the fourth century onwards such as in the Jabal Dabub inscription[1] and the Abd Shams inscription.
[2] This inscription also contains the first example of a type of assimilation of short vowels known from Classical Arabic grammar.