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 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

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 with Hieroglyphs in a Rope Border

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs in a Rope Border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Seal of the United States Marine Corps owned by Gen. Colin Powell, by United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775

Seal of the United States Marine Corps owned by Gen. Colin Powell

United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · 1989-1993

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs in a Rope Border

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs in a Rope Border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Savoyards

Savoyards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs in Rope Border

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs in Rope Border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1600 B.C. (Middle Bronze Age IIB)

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

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Ring of Ruiu

Scarab Ring of Ruiu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Embroidered Frontal, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for an Embroidered Frontal

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Ring of Ruiu

Scarab Ring of Ruiu

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs in a Scroll Border

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs in a Scroll Border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
"Souvenir of Buffalo, N.Y."

"Souvenir of Buffalo, N.Y."

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Waste Not Want Not, by A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852

Waste Not Want Not

A.W.N. Pugin, English, 1812–1852 · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1670 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–45

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. 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.