1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
THAPSACUS, the " large and prosperous city " on the Arabian side of the Euphrates where Cyrus the Younger revealed to the Greeks the object of his expedition (Xen. Anab. i. 4, n). No such place has yet been found mentioned in cuneiform texts. We may have a Semitic form of the name in the Hebrew Tiphsah; but it is impossible to determine whether the one phrase » " from Tiphsah to Gaza " (i Kings v. 4— iv. 24 in the English version), where the name seems to occur, is as early 12 Kings xv. 16 cannot possibly refer to …
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