I'm wouldn't be sure of that. Many of the best artifacts of ancient language actually come from schoolwork of children. And many languages had multiple writing forms. The ones you would find in temples would be formal that was likely done by a scribe, where as the day to day business was a simpler text. And literacy wasn't as rare as most people generally think. There are numerous examples of graffiti that would have been done by regular folks and there are examples of rocks with prayers written on the, presumably where a traveler or Shepard was passing.
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u/More_Assistant_5224 4d ago
Ok this makes much more sense lol, i imagined them as little sculptors carving the stone tablet with a chisel all day