OpenTwo 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. 7 shown for “Scarab Depicting Ramesses II Smiting a Prisoner Before Amun” — 47 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 19:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scarab Depicting Ramesses II Smiting a Prisoner Before Amun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Grant and Lee
Botticher, Otto · 1865
Scarab Depicting Ramesses II Smiting a Captive Before the God Ptah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Oblong Plaque Depicting Ramesses II Smiting Enemies, opposite side relief scene of Isis and Nephthys flanking falcon labeled Horus son of Isis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Scarab Inscribed With the Prenomen of Ramesses II and depicting the king in his chariot trampling an enemy
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Tile from Side of Platform of Dais
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
See 35.1.16
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1826005 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 19:55 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.