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. 22 shown for “Limestone cippus of Olympos” — 63 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 00:15 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.
Limestone cippus of Olympos

Limestone cippus of Olympos

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Stachys sp.

Stachys sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone funerary cippus

Limestone funerary cippus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Phlomis sp.

Phlomis sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone cippus base

Limestone cippus base

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500–450 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Polygala sp.

Polygala sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone funerary cippus (tomb marker)

Limestone funerary cippus (tomb marker)

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Arenaria sp.

Arenaria sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone funerary cippus (tomb marker)

Limestone funerary cippus (tomb marker)

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Gypsophila sp.

Gypsophila sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone funerary cippus (tomb marker)

Limestone funerary cippus (tomb marker)

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Dianthus sp.

Dianthus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone funerary cippus (tomb marker) of Artemidoros

Limestone funerary cippus (tomb marker) of Artemidoros

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Arenaria sp.

Arenaria sp.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone head of Herakles

Limestone head of Herakles

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Lamium sp.

Lamium sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone votive pine cone

Limestone votive pine cone

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seseli sp.

Seseli sp.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone plaque with bilingual inscription

Limestone plaque with bilingual inscription

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Allium sp.

Allium sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Oct 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone cippus of Themistion

Limestone cippus of Themistion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
Limestone cippus of Philon

Limestone cippus of Philon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

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. 23 matched · 23 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. 2867166 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 00:15 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.