WʽZB

{{Short description|King of Aksum from 570 to 580}}

{{Infobox royalty|name=W{{ayin}}ZB|image=Wazeb.jpg

| succession = King of Aksum

| reign = 570-580

| predecessor = Wazena

| successor = Ioel

}}

W{{ayin}}ZB (vocalized as Wa{{ayin}}zeb) or Ella Gabaz was a king of Axum (flourished mid 6th century). He uses the name "Ella Gabaz" on his coinage, but calls himself W{{ayin}}ZB in an inscription where he states he is the "son of Ella Atsbeha", or king Kaleb.A translation of this inscription by Richard Pankhurst is included in G.W.B. Huntingford, The Historical Geography of Ethiopia (London: The British Academy, 1989), pp. 65f.

In his discussion of this king, Stuart Munro-Hay draws on material from the story of Abba Libanos, the "Apostle of Eritrea", in which a king named "Za-Gabaza Aksum" is mentioned, to suggest that Ella Gabaz and Za-Gabaza might be epithets W{{ayin}}ZB adopted, and indicate that he did some important construction on Mariam Syon (or Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion) in Axum.Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), p. 89.