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 “Cylinder seal and modern impression: animal combat and sphinx” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:58 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.
Cylinder seal and modern impression: animal combat and sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. early 2nd millennium BCE
Cylinder seal with cultic scene
Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–early 8th century BCE
Haematite cylinder seal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
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: lion and sphinx over an antelope
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BCE
Seal Impression
Artist not stated in the record · 8th–10th century
Cylinder seal and modern impression: demons and animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BC
Cylinder seal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–12th century BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: goddess leading a worshiper to a seated deity; bull god
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 20th–19th century BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: bull-man combatting lion; nude hero combatting water buffalo; inscription
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 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. 479 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 17:58 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.