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
Model of a Granary with Scribes20.3.11 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Mourning Isis12.182.23b · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPtolemaic Period
Nome Gods Bearing Offerings1961.205 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE)
Nome Gods Bearing Offerings1976.51 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE)
Osiris04.2.579 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
OsirisX.352.4 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Osiris04.2.440 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Osiris04.2.576 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Osiris04.2.575 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
OsirisX.352.1 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Osiris89.2.267 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Osiris89.2.565 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLate Period–Ptolemaic Period
Ostracon: Ramesses II Suckled by a Goddess1987.156 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 19, reign of Ramesses II (1279–1213 BCE)
Outer Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy25.3.182a, b · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtThird Intermediate Period
Paint Box of Vizier Amenemope1914.680 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep II (1425–1400 BCE)
Palette in the Form of a Fish1989.32 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada II–III (3650–3000 BCE)
Palette in the Form of a Turtle1989.47 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada IIa–IIIa (3650–3000 BCE)
Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II16.1.3a, b · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Pendant1989.39 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasties 21–22
Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor07.230.2 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Sarcophagus of the Hathor Priestess Henhenet07.230.1a, b · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Scarab of the Storehouse Overseer Wah40.3.12 · The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMiddle Kingdom
Seated Scribe of Medthu1920.2004 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Tuthmosis III (1479–1425 BCE)
Seated Statue of Nykara1964.90 · The Cleveland Museum of ArtEgypt, Old Kingdom (2647–2124 BCE), Dynasty 5, reign of Nyuserre (2445–2422 BCE) or later
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.