Writing is a social practice, and as such is fundamentally entwined with a wide array of other forms of human activity, professional categories and aspects of cultural life. However, this is often not fully reflected in scholarly approaches to writing practices, which tend to focus almost exclusively on the act of inscription itself, and on the practices of literates alone. Taking as its case study the Late Bronze Age Syrian polity of Ugarit and focusing on the social and cultural aspects of the procurement of raw materials for writing, this article aims to explore some of the ways in which groups of people beyond the urban, literate elite facilitated, contributed to and shaped the nature of writing practices.

写作是一种社会实践，因此从根本上与广泛的其他形式的人类活动、专业类别和文化生活的各个方面交织在一起。然而，这往往没有完全反映在写作实践的学术方法中，这些方法往往几乎只关注铭文行为本身，而只关注识字者的实践。本文以青铜时代晚期的叙利亚乌加里特政体为案例研究，重点关注写作原材料采购的社会和文化方面，旨在探索城市以外的识字精英群体的一些方式促进、促进和塑造了写作实践的本质。