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: god with flowing vase; griffin demon” — 17 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:43 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.
Cylinder seal and modern impression: god with flowing vase; griffin demon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 12th century BCE
Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE
Cylinder seal
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–1730 BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: man spearing bull; griffin demon; deities above
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–1730 BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: winged griffin attacking seated winged bull
Artist not stated in the record · late 9th–mid 6th century BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: weather gods framing heraldic griffins at tree below winged sun disc and ibexes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–1650 BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunter spearing a lion before deity with staff
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 17th century BCE (?)
Cylinder seal and modern impression: royal worshiper before a god on a throne; human-headed bulls below
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820–1730 BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: heroes and animals in combat, head of the monster Humbaba
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1600 BCE
Cylinder sea and modern impression: three figures
Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd millennium or 10th–9th century BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: mistress of animals flanked by rampant horned animals
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: bearded deity flanked by kneeling heroes; Horus and monkeys; ibex-demon; sphinx trampling serpents
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 19th 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. 17 matched · 17 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 14:43 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.