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. 10 shown for “Cuneiform tablet impressed with seal: account of archers for military service, Ebabbar archive” — 10 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.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 impressed with seal: account of archers for military service, Ebabbar archive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 514 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 impressed with seals: administrative document inscribed in Achaemenid Elamite
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 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 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 prism describing the restoration of Babylon by Esarhaddon, stamped with Assyrian hieroglyphic inscription
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 676–672 BCE
Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II, describing the rebuilding of Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash at Sippar
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 604–562 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: administrative account concerning the distribution of barley and emmer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2900 BCE
Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the construction of the outer city wall of Babylon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 604–562 BCE
Corner fragment of inscribed prism (kudurru)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th–6th century 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 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 20:43 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.