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. 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

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.
Head of the god Amun

Head of the god Amun

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

Public domainThe Met
Battle of the Sea Gods, right half

Battle of the Sea Gods, right half

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amun

Amun

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
God the Father

God the Father

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amun

Amun

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: The Division of Priests, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: The Division of Priests

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Tutankhamun

Head of Tutankhamun

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

Public domainThe Met
Recto: Coronation of the Virgin, by Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646

Recto: Coronation of the Virgin

Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646 · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Head of Apollo, by Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831

Head of Apollo

Giuseppe Longhi, Italian, 1766–1831 · 1790–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statuette of Amun

Statuette of Amun

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1720–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of Amun

Head of Amun

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

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with God the Father and Angels, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

Virgin and Child with God the Father and Angels

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1647–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown

Head of King Seti II Wearing the Blue Crown

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1214–1208 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Torsos, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Torsos

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1587 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Male god

Male god

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

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Trinity, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

The Holy Trinity

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · 1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stela of the royal scribe Amunnakht praising the divine barque of Amun-Re, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands

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

Public domainThe Met
Epilobium hornemannii Rchb. subsp. hornemannii

Epilobium hornemannii Rchb. subsp. hornemannii

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–945 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Caduceus-form, by Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815

Caduceus-form

Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 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.