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. 21 shown for “Scarab fragment” — 58 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 06:53 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 fragment

Scarab fragment

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

Public domainThe Met
Scarab Beetle

Scarab Beetle

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Human-Headed Heart Scarab

Fragment of a Human-Headed Heart Scarab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1802–1550 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Scarab Beetle

Scarab Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of a Scarab Inscribed for Neferhotep I

Part of a Scarab Inscribed for Neferhotep I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1741–1730 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tumble Bug, Scarab Beetle, Scarab Beetle

Tumble Bug, Scarab Beetle, Scarab Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papyrus burnisher of the Scribe, Merymaat

Papyrus burnisher of the Scribe, Merymaat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scarab Beetle

Scarab Beetle

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Scarab of a Lady

Fragment of a Scarab of a Lady

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

Public domainThe Met
Scarab Beetle

Scarab Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1914

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

Fragment of a Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

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

Public domainThe Met
Rainbow Scarab

Rainbow Scarab

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of Scarab Inscribed for Seti I

Fragment of Scarab Inscribed for Seti I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1299–1290 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Rainbow Scarab

Rainbow Scarab

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papyrus fragments from the Book of the Dead of the Scribe Roy

Papyrus fragments from the Book of the Dead of the Scribe Roy

Artist not stated in the record · possibly ca. 1314–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dynastes grantii

Dynastes grantii

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Sep 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Name Panel from the Mortuary Complex of Senwosret I

Name Panel from the Mortuary Complex of Senwosret I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Dung Beetle

Dung Beetle

Artist not stated in the record · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Name Panel from Mortuary Complex of Senwosret I

Name Panel from Mortuary Complex of Senwosret I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Cotinis ? sp

Cotinis ? sp

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Papyrus fragments from the Book of the Dead of the Scribe Roy

Papyrus fragments from the Book of the Dead of the Scribe Roy

Artist not stated in the record · possibly ca. 1314–1300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 0 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. 39325 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 06:53 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.