In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, I, Gôlthě, write to David the Camel Driver, saying, I direct thee, and here is the Word of God, to see to the Camel of Apa Philotheos…and again, here is the Word of God, thou mayest go North and thou mayest go South, for I demand no other but this...
-Ostrakon No.5894, Coptic and Greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraka in the British Museum, 1905
David, Joseph, Zaël, Mathias, and Hôr are camel drivers from antiquity known to us from their names written on Ostraka, Pot Shards. Yusuf, Bilal, Rabih, Ibrahim, and Abdullah might be so lucky if history remembers their names after driving camels on the Darb, Inshā’Allah.