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 “Cuneiform tablet: account of barley, Ebabbar archive” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:05 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.

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley, Ebabbar archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: account of barley disbursement, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley disbursement, Ebabbar archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: account of barley payments, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley payments, Ebabbar archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: account of barley disbursements, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley disbursements, Ebabbar archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 577 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: account of barley deliveries, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley deliveries, Ebabbar archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 617 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: account of barley deliveries, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley deliveries, Ebabbar archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: account of barley disbursements, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley disbursements, Ebabbar archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: account of barley issue for a prebendary, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley issue for a prebendary, Ebabbar archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 586 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: account of barley for bird-fodder, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley for bird-fodder, Ebabbar archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 576 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: account of barley as agricultural dues, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley as agricultural dues, Ebabbar archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 566 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: account of barley disbursements to prebendary bakers, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley disbursements to prebendary bakers, Ebabbar archive

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 620 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. 201 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 2026-08-27 23:05 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.