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 “Stela with a seated figure of Re-Harakhty” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:55 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.

Stela with a seated figure of Re-Harakhty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–721 BCE

Stela
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1525 BCE

Stela
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 945–721 BCE

Stela of Aafenmut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 924–891 BCE

Seated Buddha
Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Stela of the Gatekeeper Maati
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2030 B.C.

Magical Stela with Horus the Child
Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Seated figure
Middle Niger artist · 13th century

Seated elder
Tolita-Tumaco artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE

Seated ballplayer
Ameca-Etzatlán artists · 200 BCE–300 CE

Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000–1988 B.C.

Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944 B.C.
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. 2121 matched · 24 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:55 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.