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. 12 shown for “Cylinder seal with the Horus name of Amenemhat VII” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:45 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 with the Horus name of Amenemhat VII

Cylinder seal with the Horus name of Amenemhat VII

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal with the name of Amenemhat II

Cylinder seal with the name of Amenemhat II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal with name of Amenemhat III

Cylinder seal with name of Amenemhat III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Scarab With Throne Name of Amenemhat VII (Sedjefakare)

Scarab With Throne Name of Amenemhat VII (Sedjefakare)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1768–1765 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal with name of Amenemhat II and that of princess Khenemetneferhedjet

Cylinder seal with name of Amenemhat II and that of princess Khenemetneferhedjet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1919–1840 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Half of a cylinder seal with names of Amenemhat III

Half of a cylinder seal with names of Amenemhat III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1859–1813 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Offering table from the mortuary temple of Amenemhat I

Offering table from the mortuary temple of Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lion-shaped stamp seal with name of Amenemhat II

Lion-shaped stamp seal with name of Amenemhat II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1859–1813 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene

Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene

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

Public domainThe Met
Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 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. 107 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. 7473574 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.