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. 15 shown for “Head of Amun” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 23:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Head of the god Amun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Avenella flexuosa (L.) Drejer
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 21/7/23

Head of Amun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1300 BCE

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

Head of Amun with inlaid eyes
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Anatomical Sketches of Heads, Faces, and the Ear
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

Amun
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Amun
Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Head
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century

Statue of Kneeling Captive
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2246–2152 BCE

Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Head of Tutankhamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 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. 33875 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 2880856 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 23:10 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.