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 Amenhotep III” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 09:40 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 Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Emperor Napoleon III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Scarab Inscribed for Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Design for Equestrian Monument of Charles III
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Scarab of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Pharaphodius fiechteri
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 2003 to 13 May 2003

Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Onthophagus verrucosus
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 2003 to 13 May 2003

Shabti of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Pharaphodius ignotus
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 2003 to 13 May 2003

Kohl Tube Inscribed for Amenhotep III and Princess Sitamun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Caccobius semiluteus
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jan 2002 to 24 Jan 2002

Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Onthophagus alternans
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 2003 to 13 May 2003

Plaque Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Mesontoplatys bolzi
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 2003 to 13 May 2003

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Onitis inversidens
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 2003 to 13 May 2003

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Onthophagus aeruginosus
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 2001 to 31 May 2001

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Plagiogonus clypeodentatus
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 2003 to 13 May 2003

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Onthophagus masaicus
Artist not stated in the record · 1 May 2003 to 13 May 2003
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. 197 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 443541 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 09:40 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.