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. 14 shown for “Bat / Hathor emblem from a sistrum” — 28 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bat / Hathor emblem from a sistrum
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Daoist priest's robe
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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

Cushion cover
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

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

Hathor Head from a Sistrum Handle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

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

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

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

Mirror with Handle in the Form of a Hathor Emblem
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

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

Handle of sistrum
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

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

Faience Sistrum Inscribed with the Name of Ptolemy I
Artist not stated in the record · 305–30 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. 31 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:14 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.