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 Tefessador Tefesah.
2. A town in Numidia, on the road from Sicca to Cirta ( Itin. Ant. p. 41). Now Tebessaor Tifeck. [T.H.D]