Peteese and
Pihor
Peteese
and Pihor were deified brothers who were worshipped as minor
Egyptian gods in the region of Dendur a little to the south
of Aswan and Lower Nubia. The two brothers seem to have
lived during or around the 26th Dynasty and apparently were
elevated to divine status as a result of drowning in the
Nile and subsequently becoming associated with Osiris. The
Emperor Augustus built a small temple to honor the brothers
on the west bank of the Nile at Dendur which was moved to
avoid flooding by the rising waters of Lake Nasser and which
is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Reliefs in the temple show Peteese and Pihor presenting
offerings to the superior deity Isis.
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