Peteese and Pihor

{{Short description|Deified brothers in Egyptian mythology}}

{{infobox deity

|type=egyptian

|name=Peteese and Pihor

|cult_center=Dendur

|image=Peteese and Pihor.svg

|caption=drawing of Peteese and Pihor

}}

file:Pedesi and Pihor, deified sons of a local Nubian chieftain at Temple of Dendur in Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg

Peteese and Pihor were two brothers from lower Nubia who were believed to have drowned in the Nile River and became gods during the 26th dynasty.{{harvnb|Wilkinson|2003|pp=123}} During the reign of Augustus, who in addition to being Emperor of Rome was also Pharaoh while in Egypt, a temple to the brothers and Isis was built in Dendur. which today has been relocated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art due to fears of it flooding as a result of the construction of the Aswan Dam

The name of Peteese translates to "he whom Isis has given" and, Pihor translates to "he who belongs to Horus."{{cite book |last=Arnold |first=Dieter|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195126334 |title=Temples of the Last Pharaohs |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-19-512633-4 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195126334/page/244 244] |language=en |url-access=registration}}

{{Cite journal |last=Aldred |first=Cyril |year=1978 |title=The Temple of Dendur |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3269059 |journal=The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=6, 15, 30, 46, 48, 50, 57, 61 |doi=10.2307/3269059 |jstor=3269059|url-access=subscription }}