Obulco
ἡ Ὀβούλκων
Obulco (ἡ Ὀβούλκων, Strab. iii. pp. 141, 160; Ὄβουλκον, Ptol. 2.4.11; Ὀβόλκων, Steph. B. sub voces. v.), called by Pliny (3.1. s. 3) Obulco Pontificense, a Roman municipium of Hispania Baetica, in the jurisdiction of Corduba, from which it was distant about 300 stadia according to Strabo (p. 160). It had the privilege of a mint (Forez, Med. ii. p. 494, iii. p. 101; Mionnet, Suppl. i. p. 11; Sestini, p. 71; Gruter, Inscr. pp. 105, 458; Muratori, p. 1052. 4). It is commonly identified with Forcuna.
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.