Plini in his Historia Naturalis records the name Memdassa1. Madnasa was a Carian town situated on a hill above the Turkbuku Cove; and Asagi Lake. It was an Early Iron Age hill-top settlement similar to those in Pedasa and Termera.
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Bean, G. E., et al. “The Halicarnassus Peninsula.” The Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 50, 1955, pp. 85–171. JSTOR, p.121 - 122 and 155 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30104444
- George E. Bean, Turkey Beyond the Maeander. An Archaeological Guide, London Ernest Jersey 1971, p.124 http://ignca.gov.in/Asi_data/62701.pdf
- Madnasa http://www.tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=5294&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web
- Pliny. Naturalis Historia Naturalis V. 107 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/5*.html