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Punt, Dmt, and Aksum: rulers and royal family

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Sembrouthes

Sembrouthes was an early king of Aksum of the 3rd century AD, known from a single stone inscription found at Dekemhare (Däqqamhare) in Eritrea, possibly the anonymous king of the Monumentum Adulitanum.

Sofya of Axum

Sofya of Axum, remembered in Ethiopian tradition as Ahyäwa Sofya, is an early fourth-century queen of Aksum, traditionally ruling when Christianity was introduced to the kingdom.

Wazeb of Axum

Wazeb (WʽZB) was a Christian king of the Aksumite Empire, son and successor of Emperor Kaleb, who probably reigned in the first half of the 6th century.

Wazeba

Wazeba of Aksum was a King of Aksum around 340 AD, known almost entirely from his coins, the first to carry a legend in Ge'ez script.

Wazena

Wazena of Aksum was a king of Aksum in the mid-6th century AD, known essentially from his coinage, which bears Ge'ez legends and Christian mottoes and follows Kaleb's issues.

Wedem Asfare

Wedem Asfare, also written Wuden Asferé, is a king of Aksum known only from later king lists, which name him as the maternal grandfather of Queen Gudit.

Wʿrn Ḥywt

Wʿrn Ḥywt, also written Waren Ḥywt, was the earliest inscribed ruler of the Ethio-Sabaean world in northern Ethiopia, around the 7th or 6th century BC.

Yoel

Yoel, also spelled Joel or Ioel, was a king of Aksum who ruled in the late 6th and early 7th centuries and is known almost entirely from his coins.

Za Haqala

Za Haqala, listed as Zahakale, is a king of Aksum in the Ethiopian regnal lists, proposed by Henry Salt as the Zoskales of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.

Za Zalis

Za Zalis, printed as Za Les in Henry Salt's 1814 edition, is an early 1st-century AD ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum known only from the Ethiopian king lists.

Zoskales

Zoskales, also Latinized Zoscales, is a ruler of the Axumites and their Red Sea coast in the mid-1st century AD, named in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.