Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Arc sistrum with a hymn to Hathor” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Arc sistrum with a hymn to Hathor
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Sistrum
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Arc sistrum of Tapenu, chantress of Sobek of Khenyt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–600 BCE

Statue of Senenmut Holding a Sistrum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Sistrum Inscribed with the Names of King Teti
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2323–2291 BCE

Sistrum with a dedication referring to a king
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Shrine sistrum of King Apries
Artist not stated in the record · 589–570 BCE

Sistrum with the Name of King Amasis
Artist not stated in the record · 570–526 BCE

Faience Sistrum Inscribed with the Name of Ptolemy I
Artist not stated in the record · 305–30 BCE

Ostracon Depicting a Queen Holding a Sistrum
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Hathor / Bat emblem
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Amulet of a rearing cobra with a Hathor-emblem head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–332 BCE
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 32 matched · 24 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:44 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.