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 “Element with cartouche of Akhenaten and of Aten on opposite sides” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:17 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.

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.

Element with cartouche of Akhenaten and of Aten on opposite sides

Element with cartouche of Akhenaten and of Aten on opposite sides

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Part of a small block with names of the Aten preserved on opposite sides and names of Akhenaten and Nefertiti on one preserved end

Part of a small block with names of the Aten preserved on opposite sides and names of Akhenaten and Nefertiti on one preserved end

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two-sided curved element with names of Akhenaten and Nefertiti on both sides

Two-sided curved element with names of Akhenaten and Nefertiti on both sides

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Inscribed element, Akhenaten

Inscribed element, Akhenaten

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Akhenaten Sacrificing a Duck

Akhenaten Sacrificing a Duck

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Part of a small block with parts of names of the Aten and Akhenaten preserved on two adjacent sides

Part of a small block with parts of names of the Aten and Akhenaten preserved on two adjacent sides

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Torso of Akhenaten

Torso of Akhenaten

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Inscribed corner, Akhenaten prenomen on one surface, Aten cartouche on other

Inscribed corner, Akhenaten prenomen on one surface, Aten cartouche on other

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Element with the cartouche of Nefertiti

Element with the cartouche of Nefertiti

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Element with name and epithets of the Aten

Element with name and epithets of the Aten

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Element with part of cartouche and titulary of Akhenaten

Element with part of cartouche and titulary of Akhenaten

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches

Inscribed fragment of a support pillar, Akhenaten, Nefetiti, Aten cartouches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 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. 183 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 16:17 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.