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. 23 shown for “Relief from the temple of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Relief from the temple of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Temples of Hera and Athena at Paestum, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2010–2000 B.C.

Design for a Domed Classical Temple with Portico
Unknown, Italian · ca. 1780

Statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II in the Jubilee Garment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Architectural Fantasy: Temple of Athena Interior
Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · ca. 1750

Inscribed relief fragment from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Gathering of Buddhas and bodhisattvas
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Relief, Nebhepetre Mentuhotep's wives, shrine
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Head of the disciple Ananda
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Western Paradise of the Buddha Amitabha
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577

Fragment of a torus molding from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Temples of Hera I and II, Paestum, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

Fragment of a torus molding from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Wimmeria bartlettii Lundell
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Feb 1959

Temples of Hera at Paestum, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty
Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

A Seated Muse
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1800-1825

Doorjamb from a Temple of Ramesses II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
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Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?]
Unknown, Italian · early 19th century

Head of a King, Possibly Seankhkare Mentuhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Head of a Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 550-577
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. 350 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 3082235 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-26 20:23 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.