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. 9 shown for “Mummy Bandage Inscribed for Paherer” — 52 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mummy Bandage Inscribed for Paherer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

"Cairo 93"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1893

Mummy bandage of Hepmeneh, born of Tasheritentaqeri, inscribed with text and vignette from the Book of the Dead
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Pack of bandages from D-Day 1944
Artist not stated in the record · 1944

Linen Mark
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Corner of a Sheet Inscribed with the Cartouche of Neferure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Corner of a Bandage Inscribed with the Cartouche of Neferure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Religious text of Tanaweruow, daughter of Hartophnakhthes and Tatita
Artist not stated in the record · 54–68 CE

Heart amulet with human head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–721 BCE
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 431865 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 05:47 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.