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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 “Meskhetyu Instrument From Foundation Deposit C, Hatshepsut's Temple” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 06:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Meskhetyu Instrument From Foundation Deposit C, Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Tomb of Civil War Unknowns and Temple of Fame at Arlington National Cemetary
Gruber, Martin A · 1919
Mesekhtyu Instrument from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1458 BCE
Pichincha at Morning from the Hill of the Temple of the Sun, Quito, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1857
Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Design for Temple of Justice or Temple of Immortality
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · ca. 1765
Mat From Foundation Deposit C, Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Egyptian Landscape
C. Morgan McIlhenney, born Philadelphia, PA 1858-died 1904 · n.d.
Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE
Wimmeria bartlettii Lundell
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Feb 1959
Foundation Deposit Mat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1702
Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE
Diplazium succulentum (C.B. Clarke) C. Chr.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1998
Model Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE
Sampler
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
Saw From a Foundation Deposit, Hatshepsut's Temple
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Leptochilus hemionitideus (C. Presl) Noot.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1996
Ritual tool for the "Opening of the Mouth" ceremony
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Microlepia khaysiana (Hook.) C. Presl
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 2000
Ritual tool for the "Opening of the Mouth" ceremony
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Pteris aspericaulis Wall. ex Hieron.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Feb 2000
Ritual tool for the "Opening of the Mouth" ceremony
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE
Pteris aspericaulis Wall. ex Hieron.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Feb 2000
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. 44 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. 1370786 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-02 06:51 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.