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. 12 shown for “Scaraboid with an image of Hathor” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 14:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Scaraboid with an image of Hathor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

Chalcedony scaraboid
Epimenes · ca. 500 BCE

Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2010–2000 B.C.

Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right)
An Gyeon · ca. 1450–1500

The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces
Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750

Ram-headed Scaraboid Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Amun (Amun-Re)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 721–664 BCE

Bust of a Bodhisattva
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 4th–5th century

Amulet of a rearing cobra with a Hathor-emblem head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–332 BCE

Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Arc sistrum with a hymn to Hathor
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE

Column with Hathor-emblem capital and names of Nectanebo I on the shaft
Artist not stated in the record · 380–362 BCE
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. 9073 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 14:54 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.