OpenTwo 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: ritual fragment” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:21 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: ritual fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid 1st–late 1st millennium BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a ritual text
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 1st millennium BCE
Cuneiform prism describing the restoration of Babylon by Esarhaddon, stamped with Assyrian hieroglyphic inscription
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 676–672 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 568 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–4th century BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 404–338 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–4th century BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–4th century BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a receipt for silver
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 522–486 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a table containing numbers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 1st millennium BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of an astronomical table (?)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 1st millennium BCE
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a table of reciprocals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 1st millennium 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. 160 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. 46067 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 06:21 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.