Talk:Tower of David (northeast tower)

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If somebody like Hillel Geva, who has done much of the archaeological excavation at the Citadel, presents strong arguments in favour of this being the Hippicus, not the Phasael tower (see Hillel Geva, The 'Tower of David'—Phasael or Hippicus? in the Israel Exploration Journal (1981), Vol. 31, No. 1/2, pages=57-65 [1]), and somebody like Denys Pringle writes "Tower of Hippicus (or Phasael)" (see Denys Pringle, Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer, Cambridge UP (2009), p. 55 [2]), then WP should at least avoid picking a side and should use a neutral title like "Tower of Hippicus or Phasael", or viceversa, and link it to the four alternative options a user might search for (Tower of Hippicus, Tower of Phasael, Hippicus Tower, Phasael Tower). Arminden (talk) 00:27, 27 September 2015 (UTC)Arminden[reply]

So? Who feels in charge here? @Zero0000, Pulvis angelus, and Valerius Tygart: Arminden (talk) 08:14, 1 October 2015 (UTC)Arminden[reply]

... that can easily mislead the user. The Phasael or Hippicus Tower is hardly distinguishable - it's that small section on the left margin, with flags on top. Nothing better available?Arminden (talk) 11:56, 20 October 2015 (UTC)Arminden[reply]

I'm reading Martin Goodman's Herod The Great: Jewish King in a Roman World and it says on pages 25-6 that "At some point he may have fallen in love with a boy named Hippicus, about whom nothing else is known; he commemorated Hippicus much later by erecting a magnificent tower on the wall of Jerusalem in the name of his friend, "lost in war after valiant fight." From what I gathered of the singular primary source mentioning Hippicus De Bello Judaico 5.161-5 it seems like an okay assumption that the two could've been lovers as Goodman suggests. For now I will only delete the mention of Hippicus being a general as that is unsubstantiated. Drgerke (talk) 05:56, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]