To add to the question most religions of the time saw the left hand as a bad thing, so I’m assuming everyone regardless of dominance used their right hand. Also, wouldn’t the writing from right-to-left cause smudge errors in the script similar to how lefties get the “grey palm” when writing?
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The stone carving thing makes sense to me, a thought that occurs is that if you go left to right, while chiseling into stone and you make a mistake. You’re more likely to fuck up your previous work. If you’re going to right to left and the chisel slips, you mess up some blank space instead.
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