Hope W. Hogg, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)
“ 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 [1] “from Tiphsah to Gaza” (1 Kings v. 4—iv. 24 in the English version) , where the name seems to occur, is as early as the Persian period: the Greek text is quite discrepant. Thapsacus was the crossing-place of Darius Codomannus, before and after his defeat (Arrian ii. 13) , and of Alexander (iii. 7) , and in Strabo’s time it was the usual crossing-place (xvi. 1, 21) ”
