Tipasa
Τίπασα
Tipasa (Τίπασα, Ptol. 4.2.5).
1.
A town in Mauretania Caesariensis, endowed with the jus Latii by the emperor Claudius (Plin. v. s. 1) and subsequently a Roman colony (Itin. Ant. p. 15). It lay between Icosium and Caesarea (Ib.). Procopius (B. V. 2.10) mentions two columns near Tipasa in the SE. of Mauretania, which had on them the following inscription in the Phoenician language: We are fugitives from the face of Joshua, the robber, and his son Nave.
Now Tefessad or Tefesah.
2.
A town in Numidia, on the road from Sicca to Cirta (Itin. Ant. p. 41). Now Tebessa or Tifeck. [T.H.D]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.