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KORYDALLOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Corydalla (Korudalla: Eth. Korudalleus), a city of the Rhodii, according
to Hecataeus, quoted by Stephanus (s. v.). But it was not in Rhodes, nor was it
one of the Rhodian possessions in the Peraea. (Plin. v. 25; Ptol. v. 3.) The Table
marks Corydalla (Coridallo) on the road from Phaselis, selis, in Lycia, to Patara,
and makes the distance between these two places 29 M. P. Pliny (v. 25) places
Corydalla in the interior of Lycia, and Ptolemy mentions it with Sagalassus, Rhodia,
Phellus, Myra, and other places, as about Mons Massicytus. There are coins of
Corydalla of the imperial period, with the epigraph Korudalleon. It is not difficult
to see where this place should be looked for. The present site is a village called
Hadgivella, on the east side of a small stream, about 16 miles, direct distance,
south-west of Phaselis. (Spratt and Forbes, Lycia, vol. i. p. 164.) There was
discovered, in an old wall, a squared block, with its inscribed face turned towards
the stones, on which, in beautifully preserved letters, was the name of the city,
Corydalla. There are at Corydalla the remains of a small theatre, of a Roman aqueduct,
and a massive Hellenic wall. The inscription copied from Corydalla (vol. ii. p.
277) is of the time of M. Aurelius Antoninus; and it shows that Corydalla had
the usual Greek constitution, a senate and a popular body. Pliny mentions Gagae,
Corydalla, and Rhodiopolis, in this order; and Rhodiopolis was found by Spratt
and Forbes near Corydalla.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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.
G. E. Bean, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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