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. 21 shown for “Lentoid seal” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:06 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.
Steatite lentoid seal

Steatite lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1050 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carnelian lentoid seal

Carnelian lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agate lentoid seal

Agate lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1375 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1836 to May 1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agate lentoid seal

Agate lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Artist not stated in the record · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agate lentoid seal

Agate lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Haematite lentoid seal

Haematite lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 16/5/68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steatite lentoid seal

Steatite lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1931

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Steatite lentoid seal

Steatite lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 May 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chalcedony lentoid seal

Chalcedony lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Vicia lentoides (Ten.) Coss. & Germ.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sardonyx lentoid seal

Sardonyx lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Agate lentoid seal

Agate lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chalcedony lentoid seal

Chalcedony lentoid seal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 57 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 9857 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:06 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.