Peteese and Pihor

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

{{infobox deity

|type=egyptian

|name=Peteese and Pihor

|cult_center=Dendur

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

|caption=relief of Peteese and Pihor

}}

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}}