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 with Hieroglyphs in a Rope Border” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:38 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 with Hieroglyphs in a Rope Border
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740–1640 B.C.

Seal of the United States Marine Corps owned by Gen. Colin Powell
United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · 1989-1993

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs in a Rope Border
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740–1640 B.C.

Savoyards
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs in Rope Border
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1600 B.C. (Middle Bronze Age IIB)

Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

Scarab Ring of Ruiu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Design for an Embroidered Frontal
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780-1790

Scarab Ring of Ruiu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1825–35

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs in a Scroll Border
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.

"Souvenir of Buffalo, N.Y."
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1904

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Waste Not Want Not
A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852 · ca. 1850

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–25

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–80

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Border
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1840

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Border
Artist not stated in the record · 1835–45
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. 275 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. 7483339 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 16:38 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.