OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two 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. 18 shown for “Cylinder seal and modern impression: mistress of animals flanked by rampant horned animals” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:20 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Cylinder seal and modern impression: mistress of animals flanked by rampant horned animals

Cylinder seal and modern impression: mistress of animals flanked by rampant horned animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: horned animals

Cylinder seal and modern impression: horned animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Coat-of-Arms

Coat-of-Arms

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal with horned animals

Cylinder seal with horned animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seal Impression

Seal Impression

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: demons and animals

Cylinder seal and modern impression: demons and animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BC

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: Master of Animals between lions, griffins, Minoan genius

Cylinder seal and modern impression: Master of Animals between lions, griffins, Minoan genius

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: two horned animals, rosettes

Cylinder seal and modern impression: two horned animals, rosettes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3100–2900 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal and modern impression: heroes wrestling rampant animals

Cylinder seal and modern impression: heroes wrestling rampant animals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2250–2150 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal and modern impression: suppliant goddess

Cylinder seal and modern impression: suppliant goddess

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 17th–16th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal and modern impression: creature flanking stylized tree

Cylinder seal and modern impression: creature flanking stylized tree

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 11th–9th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal and modern impression: palmette tree flanked by winged griffin and caprid; figure between them with raised hands; ingot

Cylinder seal and modern impression: palmette tree flanked by winged griffin and caprid; figure between them with raised hands; ingot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 14th–13th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal and modern impression: bird, man, horned animal

Cylinder seal and modern impression: bird, man, horned animal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 15th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

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. 116 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. 4240586 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 04:20 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.