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. 12 shown for “Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:09 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu

Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu

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

Public domainThe Met
Relief preserving part of a scene with the king and queen - see 26.3.353-4

Relief preserving part of a scene with the king and queen - see 26.3.353-4

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

Public domainThe Met
Relief preserving part of a scene with the king and queen - see 26.3.353-4

Relief preserving part of a scene with the king and queen - see 26.3.353-4

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

Public domainThe Met
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
Relief with the Head of Amenhotep I

Relief with the Head of Amenhotep I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525–1504 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

Relief scene from the tomb of Queen Neferu: fragments from two registers showing male and female attendants moving to the right

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

Public domainThe Met
Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Censer with seated king, by Maya artist(s)

Censer with seated king

Maya artist(s) · 300–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Relief fragments from procession of attendants

Relief fragments from procession of attendants

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

Public domainThe Met
Relief with enthroned ruler, by Chakalte'

Relief with enthroned ruler

Chakalte' · 770 CE

Public domainThe Met
Relief fragments from the tomb of Neferu showing richly adorned attendants moving right to left

Relief fragments from the tomb of Neferu showing richly adorned attendants moving right to left

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

Public domainThe Met
Relief Fragment with Parts of Heads of Prisoners

Relief Fragment with Parts of Heads of Prisoners

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2030–2000 B.C.

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. 123 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 10:09 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.