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. 16 shown for “Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon” — 46 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:33 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 statuette of Zeus Ammon

Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Zeus and Ganymede, by Michelangelo Maestri, Italian, d. 1812

Zeus and Ganymede

Michelangelo Maestri, Italian, d. 1812 · ca. 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Zeus Angered

Zeus Angered

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cupid from Amor Arguing with Zeus, After Raphael

Cupid from Amor Arguing with Zeus, After Raphael

Artist not stated in the record · 1550–1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Zeus Deciding on the Destiny of Troy, Palazzo Gessi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Zeus Deciding on the Destiny of Troy, Palazzo Gessi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a seated Zeus Ammon

Limestone statuette of a seated Zeus Ammon

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Payment of Zeus, by Carl Marr, born Milwaukee, WI 1858-died Munich, Germany 1936

Payment of Zeus

Carl Marr, born Milwaukee, WI 1858-died Munich, Germany 1936 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone ram and head of “Zeus Ammon” supporting an incense burner

Limestone ram and head of “Zeus Ammon” supporting an incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ovis ammon ammon

Ovis ammon ammon

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hebe Offering a Drink to Zeus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Hebe Offering a Drink to Zeus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fallen Column at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Fallen Column at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, by Lockwood de Forest, American, 1850–1932

Study of the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus

Lockwood de Forest, American, 1850–1932 · January 24, 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ammon Begs the King to Summon his Sister Thamar, by Martin Van Heemskerk, Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574

Ammon Begs the King to Summon his Sister Thamar

Martin Van Heemskerk, Netherlandish, 1498 - 1574 · 1559

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2868400 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 2026-09-06 06:33 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.