Embolima
Ἐμβόλιμα
Embolima (Ἐμβόλιμα, Arrian, 4.28; Ptol. 7.1.57; Ecbolima, Curt. 8.12.1), a town apparently in Bactriana, though considered by Ptolemy to be within the arbitrary division of ancient India which he calls India intra Gangem.
It was, according to him, near the river Indus. It was visited by Alexander the Great after the rock Aornus, near which it stood. It must therefore have been on the west bank of the Indus, perhaps at the modern Ambar, or Amb. The narrative of Curtius cannot be reconciled with its position, nor indeed with any other place in this part of the country, as he places Embolima at sixteen marches from the Indus. It was made by Alexander a magazine for the troops of which Craterus was left in charge. (Wilson, Ariana, p. 191.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.