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 “Cuneiform tablet: Late Babylonian grammatical text” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:26 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.

Cuneiform tablet: Late Babylonian grammatical text
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 1st millennium BCE

Cuneiform tablet: Old Babylonian balag to the mother goddess Aruru
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 19th–16th century BCE

Cuneiform tablet: Atra-hasis, Babylonian flood myth
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal: receipt of silver
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1756 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: hire contract
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 545 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: hymn to Marduk
Artist not stated in the record · 1st millennium BCE

Cuneiform tablet: animal inventory from the reign of Nabopolassar or Nebuchadnezzar II, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 7th–early 6th century BCE

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley and date disbursements, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 604–562 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: theological text fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 626–539 BCE

Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing work done on a wall and moat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 604–562 BCE

Cuneiform tablet impressed with scaraboid (?) ring seal: receipt for gold
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 560 BCE

Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II, describing the rebuilding of Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash at Sippar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 604–562 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. 380 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 09:26 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.