Sibda
SIBDAΣίβδα : Eth. Σιβδανός, Σβδίτης), a place in Caria, and one of the six towns which were given by Alexander the Great to Ada, a daughter of king Hecatomnus of Halicarnassus, and thus became subject to Halicarnassus. (Steph. B. s. v.;Plin. Nat. 5.29.) Its exact site cannot be ascertained.
[L.S]Recorded by Stephanos Byzantios s.v. as a city of Caria and presumably identical with the Side listed by Pliny (HN 5.107) among the six Lelegian towns incorporated by Alexander (but really by Mausolos) in Halikarnassos. No other mention occurs. It is not improbably to be identified with the site on Karadağ in the Myndos peninsula, where Telmissos had been placed. Here are two Lelegian settlements close together, with walls of dry rubble masonry, numerous houses, and sherds of 5th-4th c. date, but nothing later.
BIBLIOGRAPHYW. R. Paton & J. Myres, JHS 14 (1894) 373f; G.E. Bean & J. M. Cook, BSA 50 (1955) 123, 155.
G. E. BEAN