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It's actually not clear to me when the Greeks first applied the term Σφίγξ to the Egyptian one, but it seems very late—all of the mentions before the Hellenistic period that I can find (and actually also in, like, Pausanias) are all about Greek sphinxes. This doesn't absolutely rule out that the word originally referred to the Egyptian one before it came into Greek, but it definitely moved in the other direction later.

The variation in the Greek Beekes lists at least possibly suggests a loan from a language with a prenasalised velar, like many other substrate words:

And it also has the "Pre-Greek s-mobile". If you buy into Pre-Greek in the first place, then this is a fairly obviously Pre-Greek word. If you don't, it still looks like a substrate word and not particularly like Egyptian. (I actually don't think all of these variants are necessarily the same word, and I think the monkey ought to be separated out from the sphinx.)

But he does mention an Egyptian etymology! He refers to a "Mac Creedy" in Glotta 46, which is actually A. G. McGready somehow. The article is Egyptian Words in the Greek Vocabulary, and here's the relevant passage in full:

I don't know who Gunn is (it's the only time he's mentioned in the article and there's no bibliography that I can see), but it's not clear that šzp-ꜥnḫ (as opposed to just šzp) ever did refer to the Egyptian Sphinx, and we have no idea what the vocalisation would be. It's not a good etymology!

The Phoenicia, built in 2007–2008, is a modern replica of a 600 BC Phoenician merchant ship.

This is the university's fanciest auditorium and the woodwork has looked like absolute shit the entire time I've been here because nobody told the cleaning crew you can't scrub shellac. Every time I've been in there it's smelled very strongly of freshly sawn oak (bad!) and half of the panels are warped or cracked as a result. The technische dienst does nothing because they were forced to get rid of their specialist schrijnwerkers decades ago and there's nobody left who can even recognise the problem, much less do anything about it. It's going to stay like this until it's all ripped out in a very expensive renovation a decade from now because the level of institutional knowledge is so low that people think that completely having to replace everything every couple of decades is just something that's inherent to architectural carpentry.

I didn't take a picture of the Theology desks when I was there and this is the only one I was able to find on the website and it doesn't show the very solidly-constructed front, but look at those pegged tenons! Look at how the rails and stiles are eased into each other!

It maybe doesn't look like an exciting piece of furniture at first glance and it was never intended to be, but things have gotten so dire that it absolutely is now. At the time this was all construction-grade pine and you can't even get pine in the quality that went into that top anymore. Those panels and the rail and middle stile have been replaced at some point (I would guess in the 60s just based on the look of the wood), but the rest of it is easily a hundred years old, and it was made to be repaired.