Title: [Excavations near the Sphinx]
Object type: Photograph
Date: 1853
Artist:  John Beasley Greene 
Artist bio: American, born France, Le Havre 1832–1856 Cairo, Egypt
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions: Image: 22.3 x 30.2 cm (8 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.)
Mount: 18 11/16 × 24 5/16 in. (47.5 × 61.8 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005
Department: Photographs
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Ruins, term: Men, term: Sphinx