Hipplcus

( ῾Ιππικός, equestrian), the name given by Herod (in honor of one of his generals) to that one of the three towers (Josephus, War, 2, 17, 9) along the first wall of Jerusalem, inclosing Mount Zion on the north, which lay westernmost, and at its junction with the third wall (War, 5, 4, 2), being built up with immense strength (ib. 3). Its remains are still a very prominent object in the city (Robinson, Researches, 1, 453 sq.; Bartlett, Walks about Jerusalem, p. 85 sq.). Schwarz absurdly identifies it (Palest. p. 251) with the tower of Hananeel (q.v.) of Jer 31:38, on the authority of Jonathan's Targum, which there has "the tower of Pikus (פיקוס)." SEE JERUSALEM.