The public account of the salt stall relies on the warehouse issue slips and the stall’s daily brine-loss tally. A review of that source and the field notes finds a specific limit: the count can be repeated, but it does not include a dry white line left on the stone shelf after a barrel is decanted.
Nima Thol checked the warehouse issue slips and the stall’s daily brine-loss tally against the field notes. The method is to put the posted price beside the amount that actually changed hands; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them. The comparison covers 53 barrels opened for sale; 54 appear in the prior file. No signed correction to either entry was present when this review closed.
Yara Deth, keeper of the salt arcade cooperative, said the source register was complete for its stated purpose. The office has not provided a separate measure for how much spoilage the cooperative may include in the posted price, so the public record cannot yet show which account is more representative.
The cooperative counts salt lost to damp air; buyers question whether the warehouse count already includes that loss. The current record does not settle that disagreement. This report does not establish that either side misstated the evidence. It establishes that the published total is narrower than the conclusion being drawn from it.
A second set of hands has checked the count and recorded where the methods differ. The entry belongs to the midyear count file at the salt arcade of the Lower Market Hall. The next price board will list the delivered weight before and after storage. The next file should preserve the original entries and explain any change in method.
