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. 13 shown for “Cobra amulet” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:07 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cobra Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–332 BCE

False Water Cobra
Artist not stated in the record · 2017:06:09

Cobra amulet
Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Uraeus Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–945 BCE

Amulet of a rearing cobra with a Hathor-emblem head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–332 BCE

Figure of a rearing cobra with lion head
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Mold for a Sun Disk Flanked by Uraeus Cobras
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Wedjat eye amulet with a wing and other elements
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–664 BCE

Snake-head Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Hathor Head Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–332 BCE

Scarabs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Uraeus Amulet of Djedmutesankh
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Uraeus plaque from a string of amulets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–945 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. 30 matched · 24 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. 1578 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:07 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.