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 “String of Beads and Amulets” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:47 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.

String of beads and amulets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

String of Beads and Amulets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

String of beads and amulets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1295 B.C.

String of beads and amulets (wedjat eyes)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

Necklace with Amulets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Amulets and string of beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

String of beads and amulets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1328 BCE

Beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE

String of Beads and Bes Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–343 BCE

Design Amulet with Pierced Shank, Device of Squatting Child Facing Right
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2100–2080 B.C.

Design Amulet with Loop on the Back, Device of Two Children shown in Opposite Vertical Orientations
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2100–1950 B.C.

Design Amulet, Pyramidal Back with Horizontal Piercing, Device showing Two Falcons Flanking what is meant to be an Ankh Sign
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2150–2010 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. 454 matched · 24 examined · 3 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 02:47 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.