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 “Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:23 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.
Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor

Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2010–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Relief, by Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650

Project for a Relief

Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · About 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II in the Jubilee Garment

Statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II in the Jubilee Garment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the temple of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II

Relief from the temple of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Radiator, by Stratton & Seymour, New York, New York, USA,1837–1842

Radiator

Stratton & Seymour, New York, New York, USA,1837–1842 · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II

Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Fantasy: Temple of Athena Interior, by Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778

Architectural Fantasy: Temple of Athena Interior

Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief, Nebhepetre Mentuhotep's wives, shrine

Relief, Nebhepetre Mentuhotep's wives, shrine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inscribed relief fragment from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep II

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.

Public domainThe Met
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a torus molding from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep II

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.

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Jean IV, Duke de Bretagne (1293-1345)

Portrait of Jean IV, Duke de Bretagne (1293-1345)

Artist not stated in the record · 1710-1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a torus molding from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep II

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.

Public domainThe Met
Sarcophagus of the Hathor Priestess Henhenet

Sarcophagus of the Hathor Priestess Henhenet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Head of a King, Possibly Seankhkare Mentuhotep III

Head of a King, Possibly Seankhkare Mentuhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Lintel depicting King Amenemhat I flanked by Nekhbet, Horus, Anubis, and Wadjet

Lintel depicting King Amenemhat I flanked by Nekhbet, Horus, Anubis, and Wadjet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 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. 247 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. 3211520 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 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.