Egyptian Open Access art
A free gallery of public-domain Egyptian sculpture, coffins, amulets, and reliefs from The Met and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Use it to check accession numbers, credit lines, and museum pages beside our cited encyclopedia.
Records are harvested into a static snapshot. Pages do not query museum APIs live. Deity and wisdom pages show only reviewed mappings. The grid below can include unmapped snapshot rows for browsing.
These records come from museum Open Access programs (CC0 / public domain). Serpent Earth hosts them as a teaching commons and does not claim ownership. We are not affiliated with The Metropolitan Museum of Art or The Cleveland Museum of Art.
144 public-domain objects
Aegis of Sakhmet or Bastet10.130.2055 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Alabastron1995.262 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)
Alabastron1995.262.a · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)
Alabastron (stopper)1995.262.b · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)
Amulet of Anubis on his Shrine04.18.9 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Amulet of Bastet1973.29 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE)
Anubis04.2.430 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Anubis04.2.427 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Anubis04.2.428 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Anubis Amulet2021.41.33 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Anubis Amulet04.2.151 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Anubis Fetish (Imiut)14.3.19–.20 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Apis Bull1969.118 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)
Baboon on a Limestone Base1988.154 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 30–Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)
Bastet34.6.1 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Bull's-Head Amulet1998.26 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada II–III (3650–3000 BCE)
Bust of Ankh-Hor1914.662 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 27
Canopic Jar with Falcon's Head1921.1018 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26
Canopic Jar with Falcon's Head1921.1018.a · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26
Canopic Jar with Falcon's Head (lid)1921.1018.b · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26
Canopic Jar with Jackal's Head1921.1021 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26
Canopic Jar with Jackal's Head1921.1021.a · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26
Canopic Jar with Jackal's Head (lid)1921.1021.b · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26
Canopic Jar with Lid1914.630 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18
Frequently asked questions
- Which museums are in this Egyptian Open Access collection?
- Serpent Earth snapshots public-domain Egyptian works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Art department and the Cleveland Museum of Art. British Museum pages stay citations only. We do not scrape closed image APIs.
- Are these Egyptian art images public domain?
- Yes. Harvest keeps a record only when the museum marks the work public domain or CC0 and supplies an image. Credit line, accession number, and the museum object URL appear on every card and object page.
- Does Serpent Earth call museum APIs when I open a page?
- No. Pages read a static JSON snapshot committed in the repository. Harvest scripts run offline for operators. That keeps encyclopedia pages accurate when an API is down.
- Why do deity pages show fewer objects than the gallery?
- The gallery can list every validated snapshot row. Encyclopedia embeds show only objects a human mapped to that deity or wisdom topic. Unmapped rows stay in the gallery.