OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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 “Atum as a human-headed cobra surmounting a box for an animal mummy” — 16 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:42 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

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.

Atum as a human-headed cobra surmounting a box for an animal mummy

Atum as a human-headed cobra surmounting a box for an animal mummy

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two ichneumons surmounting a shrine-shaped box for an animal mummy

Two ichneumons surmounting a shrine-shaped box for an animal mummy

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Senwosret III as a Sphinx

Senwosret III as a Sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1878–1840 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Two cats surmounting a box for an animal mummy

Two cats surmounting a box for an animal mummy

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Falcon surmounting box for an animal mummy

Falcon surmounting box for an animal mummy

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Shrew-mouse surmounting shrine-shaped box for an animal mummy

Shrew-mouse surmounting shrine-shaped box for an animal mummy

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Shrew surmounting a box for animal mummy

Shrew surmounting a box for animal mummy

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Falcon in double crown surmounting a shrine-shaped box for an animal mummy

Falcon in double crown surmounting a shrine-shaped box for an animal mummy

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Falcon in double crown surmounting a shrine shaped box for an animal mummy

Falcon in double crown surmounting a shrine shaped box for an animal mummy

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Shrine-shaped case for an animal mummy surmounted by a lizard

Shrine-shaped case for an animal mummy surmounted by a lizard

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Amulet of a rearing cobra with a Hathor-emblem head

Amulet of a rearing cobra with a Hathor-emblem head

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ichneumon on a base with small cats, inscribed beneath base with the name of Padineith son of Isekhebi

Ichneumon on a base with small cats, inscribed beneath base with the name of Padineith son of Isekhebi

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 3 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 16:42 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.