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
Cartonnage Mummy Case1914.715 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)–Roman empire (30 BCE–395 CE)
Caryatid Mirror1983.196 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18
Cat Coffin1917.998 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)
Cat Statuette intended to contain a mummified cat56.16.1 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPtolemaic Period
Coffin of Bakenmut1914.561 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
Coffin of Bakenmut1914.561.a · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
Coffin of Bakenmut (lid)1914.561.b · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
Coffin of Khnumnakht15.2.2a, b · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Coffin of Nesykhonsu1914.714 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
Coffin of Nesykhonsu1914.714.a · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Thebes, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
Coffin of Nesykhonsu (lid)1914.714.b · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
Comb with Gazelle1995.90 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE)
Cosmetic Jar in the Form of the God Bes1995.13 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26
Cult Image of the God Ptah2007.24 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtThird Intermediate Period–Late Period
Domestic Shrine1920.2002 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Thebes(?), New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Tuthmosis III (1479–1425 BCE)
Estate Figure20.3.7 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Figure of a Baboon26.7.874 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period, Saite Period
Finger Ring with Frog1916.658 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351–1334 BCE)
Flint in the Form of a Bird1995.40 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada II–III (3650–3000 BCE)
Fragment of an Inlay Headdress1920.1976 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18
Frog Amulet1980.123 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18
Funerary Portrait of a Young Girl1971.137 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Roman Empire, late Tiberian
Game of Hounds and Jackals26.7.1287a–k · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Guardian Figure14.3.17 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
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.