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 “Egyptian” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 04:04 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bowl with Eagle
Muslim Ibn al-Dahhan · ca. 1000

Silver ring with "Men-kheper-ra" scarab
Artist not stated in the record · 1303-1085 BCE

Faience djed-pillar amulet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Faience djed-pillar amulet
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Faience Udjat eye amulet
Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Faience amulet pendant, a menat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1090–900 BCE

Bronze statuette of a horseman
Artist not stated in the record · 30 BCE–CE 364

Terracotta head of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Terracotta head of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Terracotta head of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Glass pendant in the form of crescent horns
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1186 BCE

Glass pendant ornament in the form of a pair of birds
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–12th 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. 9172 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2847 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 2026-08-26 04:04 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.