Drawing of a steliform rock panel near a mine entrance showing Proto-Sinaitic inscription, No. 349. 

"Thou, O offerer, (or) chief miner, an offering prepare for Ba'alat, on behalf of Ahena- O offerer,- an offering of a wild ewe. On behalf of his son, [Elya]tu (?), give, O offerer, a wild ewe for [Ba'alat (?)]. "

(p. 18, William Foxwell Albright. The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions and Their Decipherment. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1966)
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