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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like. Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to [email protected] Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to [email protected] Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to [email protected]
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There likely would have been some local Italic languages that hadn't died out to Latin and some amount of international/interprovincial trade going through, but more likely is that these are just decorative. Some Roman shops did definitely have signs, but even those were sometimes just symbolic - literacy was high in Roman cities, but still very far from universal - especially for any folk from the rural surrounds passing through!
Funny enough, though you can't see it here, on this counter there's some graffiti scrawled on one of the paintings