Nezool

Nezool
King of Aksum
ReignLate 5th Century-c.500 C.E.
PredecessorEbana
SuccessorOusas

Nezool (fl. later 5th century) was a king of the Kingdom of Aksum. He is primarily known from the coins minted during his reign, where his name also appears as Nezana.

Stuart Munro-Hay reports a theory that Nezool and Nezana were actually the names of a pair of kings who shared in a dual reign.[1] However, the consensus is that Nezool is the Ge'ez version of his name transliterated into Greek, while Nezana is a more Greek-looking form.[2]

  1. ^ Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), pp. 156f.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Hahn & Vincent West, Syllogue of Aksumite Coins in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2016), p. 13 ISBN 978-1-910807-10-1