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
Head of a King1914.663 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
Head of Amenhotep III Wearing the Blue Crown1952.513 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE)
Head of Amenhotep III Wearing the Round Wig1961.417 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE)
Head of King Userkaf1979.2 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Old Kingdom (2647–2124 BCE), Dynasty 5, reign of Userkaf (2496–2491 BCE)
Head of Sekhmet1916.2011 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Thebes(?), New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE)
Hedgehog1975.24 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE)
Hippopotamus ("William")17.9.1 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Horus amulet21.6.35 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Horus amulet04.2.373 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period
Horus Amulet10.130.2079 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period
Inlay of the Horus falcon on the hieroglyph for "gold"26.7.996 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period
Inlay: Head of a King1966.370 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)
Isis amulet1984.176 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPtolemaic Period
Isis amulet26.7.883 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPtolemaic Period
Isis amulet23.10.56 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period
Isis and Horus90.6.149 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Jug Decorated with Dolphins and Birds22.1.95 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom or Second Intermediate Period
Libation Dish Depicting Ka-Arms Presenting an Ankh-Sign19.2.16 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtEarly Dynastic Period
Lintel depicting Horus offering an ankh sign to the Horus name of King Amenemhat I08.200.6 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Lion Cub66.99.2 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtEarly Dynastic Period
Lion Head1974.87 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26 or later
Magical Stela with Horus the Child50.85 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period
Male Offering Bearer1949.497 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Thebes, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26
Model Basket as Amulet1978.90 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
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.