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Mine Entrance Inscription

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By Jeff A. Benner


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

Era: Early Semitic Script

Image Credit: William Foxwell Albright

Date of Inscription: c. 1500 BCE

Location of Discovery: Sinai Penninsula

Date of Discovery: Early 20th Century

Current Location: ?

Language: Unknown Semitic (Many Semitic words are common among many differnt tribes)

Writing Surface: Stone

Inscription: TBD

Transliteration: TBD

Translation: "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 (?)]." Translation by William F. Albright

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