[1] While some scholars have suggested as long ago as 1895 that he was identical to Najashi, the king of Axum who gave shelter to Muslim emigrants around 615-6, more recently Wolfgang Hahn has suggested Armah might have been the name of one of the sons of Kaleb, Alla Amidas.

[2] Stuart Munro-Hay states that either Armah or Gersem were the last Axumite kings to issue coins.

[4] In any case, the typology and quality of metal in the silver issue confirms Armah ruled after Kaleb.

[2] The silver types bear an unusual reverse, showing a structure with three crosses, the middle one gilded.

Munro-Hay quotes Wolfgang Hahn as suggesting that this is an allusion to the Holy Sepulchre, as a reference to the Persian capture of Jerusalem in 614; if this is correct, it provides a date for Armah.