Korydalla
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.
BIBLIOGRAPHYT.A.B. Spratt & E. Forbes, Travels in Lycia (1847) I 163-64M;TAM II.3 (1940) 359.
G. E. BEAN