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. 24 shown for “Head of the god Amun” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:40 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

Battle of the Sea Gods, right half
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475

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

God the Father
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–50

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

Sketchbook Page: The Division of Priests
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

Head of Tutankhamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1328–1318 BCE

Recto: Coronation of the Virgin
Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646 · ca. 1630

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

Head of Apollo
Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

Statuette of Amun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1720–30

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

Virgin and Child with God the Father and Angels
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1647–50

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

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

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1587 – 1605

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

The Holy Trinity
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1511

Stela of the royal scribe Amunnakht praising the divine barque of Amun-Re, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1197–1080 BCE

Epilobium hornemannii Rchb. subsp. hornemannii
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1920

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

Caduceus-form
Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815 · ca. 1875
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. 1529 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. 3004401 matched · 40 examined · 26 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 20:40 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.