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. 18 shown for “Ovis ammon ammon” — 59 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 05:03 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.
Marble head of Zeus Ammon

Marble head of Zeus Ammon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 120–160 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ovis ammon ammon

Ovis ammon ammon

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1912

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
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
Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

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

Public domainThe Met
Ovis ammon

Ovis ammon

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chalcedony intaglio: Head of Jupiter Ammon

Chalcedony intaglio: Head of Jupiter Ammon

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

Public domainThe Met
Jupiter Ammon

Jupiter Ammon

Artist not stated in the record · early to mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Ovis ammon polii

Ovis ammon polii

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ammon and Jonadab, by Heinrich Aldegrever

Ammon and Jonadab

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1539

Public domainThe Met
Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Limestone statuette of Zeus Ammon

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ovis ammon darwini

Ovis ammon darwini

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1923

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
Limestone block with dedication

Limestone block with dedication

Artist not stated in the record · late 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ovis ammon polii

Ovis ammon polii

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of Alexander

Bust of Alexander

Artist not stated in the record · 150 BCE–200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Ovis ammon darwini

Ovis ammon darwini

Artist not stated in the record · 1912

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
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. 19 matched · 19 examined · 2 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. 1749 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 05:03 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.