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 “Fragmentary marble head of a helmeted soldier” — 24 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:43 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.

Fragmentary marble head of a helmeted soldier
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 69–79 CE

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)
Polykleitos · ca. 69–96 CE

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Marble head of a Greek general
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Marble head and torso of Athena
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Marble portrait of the emperor Caracalla
Artist not stated in the record · 212–217 CE

Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Fragmentary marble head of a girl
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–161 CE

Upper part of a marble statue of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini
Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Marble head of a horse
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 6th century BCE

Marble fragment of a volute krater
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE
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. 93 matched · 24 examined · 9 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 2026-08-27 03:43 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.