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. 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

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.
Scarab Inscribed for Amenhotep III

Scarab Inscribed for Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Emperor Napoleon III

Emperor Napoleon III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed for Amenhotep III

Scarab Inscribed for Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Equestrian Monument of Charles III

Design for Equestrian Monument of Charles III

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab of Amenhotep III

Scarab of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pharaphodius fiechteri

Pharaphodius fiechteri

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Onthophagus verrucosus

Onthophagus verrucosus

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shabti of Amenhotep III

Shabti of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pharaphodius ignotus

Pharaphodius ignotus

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kohl Tube Inscribed for Amenhotep III and Princess Sitamun

Kohl Tube Inscribed for Amenhotep III and Princess Sitamun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Caccobius semiluteus

Caccobius semiluteus

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose III

Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Onthophagus alternans

Onthophagus alternans

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Plaque Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mesontoplatys bolzi

Mesontoplatys bolzi

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Onitis inversidens

Onitis inversidens

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Onthophagus aeruginosus

Onthophagus aeruginosus

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plagiogonus clypeodentatus

Plagiogonus clypeodentatus

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Onthophagus masaicus

Onthophagus masaicus

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 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.