Sidyma is near the village of Dodurga, but is sign posted from the main Fethiye – Xanthos road. George Bean wrote that the site is quite inaccessible to wheeled traffic and eventually a guide is essential! Not today as there is a rough bulldozed track to the village! There is nothing much to identify that the site was a city just a scattering of tombs and mausoleums around the farm lands.

Not much is known about the site except that the Emperor Marcian (A.D. 450 – 457) at that time a simple soldier fell sick and was left behind in Sidyma to recover. There he was looked after by two brothers and on recovering was asked by them if Marcian became Emperor what favour would he do them? Marcian on assuming the purple appointed them to high office in Lycia.

On the way up to the site there are a large number of pigeon hole tombs and eventually after this are a number of the more sarcophagi type tombs. The tombs though are on occasion very fine and decorated in high relief.

A pair of tombs probably for the same family.

The remains of what may have been a bath house, but open to speculation!

A particular fine example is the following tomb where on the ceiling there are a number of images carved, who or what is not certain.

Building erected on the foundations of a tomb.

Elsewhere in and around the village there is a stoa with columns on their original sports. On the south part of the stoa there is an agora being presented as a flat area. There is a nine meter long temple built in Cladius’ time. However some of the village houses are built on the top of the ruins so it is difficult to examine them too closely, even the mosque has used material from the ancient site. The villager’s appear to be willing to be a guide for money!