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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2010–2000 B.C.

Project for a Relief
Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650 · About 1650

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

Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

Relief from the temple of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

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

Relief Fragments from a Large Figure of Mentuhotep II
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

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

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

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.

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)
Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

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.

Portrait of Jean IV, Duke de Bretagne (1293-1345)
Artist not stated in the record · 1710-1720

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.

Sarcophagus of the Hathor Priestess Henhenet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

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

Lintel depicting King Amenemhat I flanked by Nekhbet, Horus, Anubis, and Wadjet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 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. 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.