MHDYS
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MHDYS (vocalized by historians as Mehadeyis) was a king of Axum (c.360). He is primarily known through the coins minted during his reign.
Mehadeyis restored Ge'ez as the language used on all his coins. Munro-Hay notes that the legend upon his bronze coins, "bzmsql tmwʾ "by this cross you will conquer" was a loose translation of the famous motto of Emperor Constantine the Great, In hoc signo vinces ("By this sign you will conquer.")[1]
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- ^ Munro-Hay, Stuart. Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), p. 81.
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