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 impressed with cylinder seal: balanced account of barley” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:45 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 impressed with cylinder seal: balanced account of barley
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2029 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
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE
Cuneiform tablet impressed with seals: administrative document inscribed in Achaemenid Elamite
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE
Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal: shipment of barley
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2029 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: balanced account of Dugga
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2039 BCE
Cuneiform tablet impressed with two cylinder seals: loan of barley
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780 BCE
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
Cuneiform tablet impressed with seal: account of payments to hired workers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–4th century BCE
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
Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal: harvester contract
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640 BCE
Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal: tax receipt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1634 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. 76 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. 2895876 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 2026-08-27 17:45 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.