Start with the threshold inventory and the release slips signed by conservators. It is the source used to make a decision about how to describe objects from the sealed gallery without claiming a history the evidence cannot support; it is not the decision itself. The rule only works if the source describes the conditions at the catalogue desk at the Old Gallery threshold.
The latest count is 57 objects with a public catalogue entry; the prior file listed 54. The responsible office has offered a limited remedy with an end date for review. The difference is a signal to check, not a verdict about who is right.
The disputed point is practical: The first catalogue calls the objects ceremonial; conservators say the recovered context is too mixed to confirm their use. One side relies on the posted total, while the other points to a small clay tag whose number does not match the number in the register.
The risk of reading the file too broadly is that an entry becomes a conclusion. Ava Korr checked the threshold inventory and the release slips signed by conservators against the field notes. The method is to note who made a record, who preserved it and who can still consult it; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them.
Next: The archive will separate observed material from attributed history in each entry. A useful update will publish the method, exceptions and review date with the number.
