Excerpt from Coptic Ostraca: From the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Cairo Museum and Others Two words are used in these texts to designate the ostraca: the Greek whit and the Coptic belie. The former seems properly to designate limestone, the latter pottery; though in a few instances (7 out of the Coptic word is applied to the stone.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.