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Blemmyan language
Blemmyan is the language of the Blemmyes, known from about ninety personal names in late antique Greek and Coptic documents, and closely related to Beja.
Blemmyes
The Blemmyes (Blemmyae) were a nomadic pastoralist people of the Eastern Desert between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea, best known as raiders of Roman Egypt and rivals of Meroitic Kush.
Gaius Petronius
Gaius Petronius was the third Roman prefect of Egypt, serving from 24 to 21 BC, and led the retaliatory war against the Kushite kingdom of Meroe, sacking Napata.
Peteese and Pihor
Peteese and Pihor, also known as Pedesi and Pihor, were two Nubian brothers deified after death and worshiped at Dendur in Lower Nubia under Roman rule.
Phonen
Phonen was a king of the Blemmyes in Lower Nubia in the 5th century AD, known from a Greek papyrus letter found at Qasr Ibrim in 1976.
Wayekiye family
The Wayekiye family was an elite Nubian priestly family of the Dodekaschoinos in Lower Nubia, serving Meroitic rulers and performing rites at Philae during Phase II, c. AD 175–273.