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. 24 shown for “Scarab Inscribed For the Scribe Djehutymose” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:06 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 Inscribed For the Scribe Djehutymose
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Advertisement for "Hulbert & Parker, Fashionable Footware"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Heart Scarab Inscribed for Djehutymose
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Advertisement for the "National Union of the United Brewery Workmen"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C.

Scribe Set
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–80

Scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1640 B.C. ?

Advertisement for "Fire King Gas Ranges"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Funerary Cone of Djehutymose
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Advertisement for "Climax Rubber Elbows"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Funerary Cone of the Scribe of the Treasury Senu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Carpenter's scribe
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Palette inscribed for Smendes (II), High Priest of Amun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1002–1000 BCE

Advertisement for "Green's Lawn Mowers"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Scarab Inscribed for Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Advertisement for "Atlas Ready Mixed Paint"
Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

Scarab Inscribed for Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Scarab Beetle
Artist not stated in the record

Scarab Inscribed for Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Scarab Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1967

Scarab Inscribed for Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Oil lantern used by oysterman Ira Wright
R. E. Deitz Company, American, founded 1840 · ca. 1957

Scarab Inscribed for Hatshepsut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Tumble Bug, Scarab Beetle, Scarab Beetle
Artist not stated in the record · 1937
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. 398 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1240836 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-27 20:06 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.