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: fragment of an accounting record” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:46 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.
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of an accounting record (?)

Cuneiform tablet: fragment of an accounting record (?)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of an accounting record

Cuneiform tablet: fragment of an accounting record

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–4th 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: fragment of an account record (?)

Cuneiform tablet: fragment of an account record (?)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 604–562 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: record of the account of Bamu

Cuneiform tablet: record of the account of Bamu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2048 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet case impressed with cylinder seal, for cuneiform tablet 11.217.7a: record of the account of Bamu

Cuneiform tablet case impressed with cylinder seal, for cuneiform tablet 11.217.7a: record of the account of Bamu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2048 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet impressed with seals: administrative document inscribed in Achaemenid Elamite

Cuneiform tablet impressed with seals: administrative document inscribed in Achaemenid Elamite

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: account of expenditures, record of deliveries of animals for the festival of sowing seed

Cuneiform tablet: account of expenditures, record of deliveries of animals for the festival of sowing seed

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2043 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet case impressed with four cylinder seals in Assyrian and Anatolian styles, for cuneiform tablet 66.245.17a: loan of silver

Cuneiform tablet case impressed with four cylinder seals in Assyrian and Anatolian styles, for cuneiform tablet 66.245.17a: loan of silver

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 20th–19th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of an account

Cuneiform tablet: fragment of an account

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2350 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of an account

Cuneiform tablet: fragment of an account

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2600–2350 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. 114 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. 7473255 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 03:46 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.