KORYDALLA
Lycia, Turkey.
About 1 km W
of Kumluca. The city is recorded by Hekataios (ap.
Steph. Byz.) and by several later writers. Pliny (
HN
5.100) calls it a city of the Rhodians; and probably, like
its neighbors Rhodiapolis, Gagai, and Phaselis, it was
founded from Rhodes. On the other hand, a bilingual inscription in Lycian and Greek, recently found at Kumluca, shows it to have been a genuine Lycian city. It was
among the beneficiaries of Opramoas in the time of Antoninus Pius. The rare coins all belong to the 3d c. A.D.
Korydalla was the seat of a bishop in Byzantine times.
The city stood on two hills some 90 m high; the site
is identified by inscriptions. The ruins previously visible
have in recent years been utterly destroyed and the stones
carried away.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
T.A.B. Spratt & E. Forbes,
Travels in
Lycia (1847) I 163-64
M;
TAM II.3 (1940) 359.
G. E. BEAN
