Late Antiquity (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), p. 13. ^ Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopians: A History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), p. 36 Gersem c. 600 Gersem (c. 600 ) was a king of Axum in northeastern Africa . He is primarily known through the coins minted during his reign. Munro-Hay states that either