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 “Stele of the protective goddess Lama” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Stele of the protective goddess Lama
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1307–1282 BCE

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Original dies)
Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Mahisha
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 9th century

Libertas Americana, United States, 1782-3
Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

Winged Goddess, probably Nut or Isis
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–332 BCE

Drawing
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800-1810

Twenty-One Emanations of the Goddess Tara
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)
Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

Fragment of the marble stele (grave marker) of a hoplite (foot soldier)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–515 BCE

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint)
Dupre, Augustin · 1776

Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 853c664 BCE

Buddhist stele
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 520s

The Goddess Durga Victorious over the Buffalo Demon, Mahisha (Mahishasuramardini)
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Libertas Americana, France, 1782-3 (Paris Mint, original dies)
Artist not stated in the record · 1782 - 1783

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit
Artist not stated in the record · 595–526 BCE

The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping
Francesco Brizzi, Italian, 1574 - 1623 · early 17th century

Lintel depicting King Amenemhat I flanked by Nekhbet, Horus, Anubis, and Wadjet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1952 BCE

Overdoor
Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Statuette of a hippo goddess, probably Taweret
Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Sketchbook Page: O Goddess! Mother!
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1883

Lion-headed goddess suckling the king
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 708–664 BCE

Design for a surtout de table (Centerpiece)
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

Vishnu Accompanied by Lakshmi and Sarasvati
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Four Antique Goddesses
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · after 1850
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. 323 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2984887 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-08 12:28 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.