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 “Heqanakht Account VI” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Heqanakht Account VI
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Design for Tablet
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1740–58

Heqanakht Letter I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1973

Heqanakht Account VII
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Achillea abrotanoides (Vis.) Vis.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 7/8/68

Heqanakht Letter V
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Achillea abrotanoides (Vis.) Vis.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1933 to 19 Jul 1933

Heqanakht Papyrus Fragments
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Lactuca pancicii (Vis.) N. Kilian & Greuter
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1930

Heqanakht Letter (III) to Merisu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Amphoricarpos neumayerianus (Vis.) Greuter
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1903

Papyrus of Sitnebsekhtu, Heqanakht Letter IV
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Lactuca aurea (Stebbins) Sch. Bip. ex Vis. & Pančić
Artist not stated in the record

Sealing with Scarab Impressions from Heqanakht's Letters
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1956–1953 B.C

Lactuca pancicii (Vis.) N. Kilian & Greuter
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1895

Heqanahkt Letter II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Henry VI, King of England and France
Renold Elstrack, c. 1570 - c. 1625 · 1618

Heqanakht's account, written over an effaced letter regarding two female servants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1956–1953 B.C

Portrait of Pius VI (1717-1799)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1783

A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Portulaca halimoides L.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Nov 2000

Joshua and David (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1410

Vis à vis
Jean-François Chopard, French, active 18th century · ca. 1750
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. 107 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 5573 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 00:54 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.