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 dates as irbu-revenue, Ebabbar archive” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as irbu-revenue, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 507 BCE

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
Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as imittu-rent, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 556–539 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as imittu-rent, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 606 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as imittu-rent, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 617 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as imittu-rent, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 534 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as imittu-rent with sissinnu payments, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 626–605 BCE (?)

Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as imittu-rent, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 625–605 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as imittu-rent with sissinnu-payments, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 6th–mid 6th century BCE

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley as agricultural dues, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 566 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of dates for prebendaries, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 608 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: account of dates for imittu-rent, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 616 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. 217 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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 08:53 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.