A razor in a museum case can appear as an isolated implement. The record for Ruiu’s razor preserves an arrangement of objects that gives it a more specific context.
Follow the recorded placement
The Met catalogue entry for 35.3.55 describes a basket beside the head end of Ruiu’s coffin containing a wooden box and a metal razor. It identifies the razor’s material as bronze or copper alloy and notes that its handle is missing.
Those details let you distinguish the surviving object from its original surroundings. Keep the basket, box and razor as separate items in a simple diagram of the description.
Preserve the catalogue’s degrees of certainty
The entry compares the razor with another from the same tomb and qualifies a proposed family relationship. Carry those qualifications into your notes instead of making every connection sound equally certain.
The razor measures 12.8 centimetres in length, a scale easy to lose in an enlarged image. Combining size, condition and recorded placement produces a fuller reading than identifying the object alone. It also shows why excavation information can remain important long after an implement has been separated from the group in which it was found.