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The scenes on the gate mainly depict the pharaoh offering to different kinds of gods, including the
brothers who this temple was dedicated to, Pedesi and Pihor. This might be an indication that the
temple was not meant as a way for the pharaoh to show his ability to protect his people, this
shows the temple was mainly meant to honour the two brothers and the other gods of this
temple, which is protected by Horus.
Fig. 23 Offering to Pedesi (Aldred 1978, 45)
Two scenes on the gate are described by Aldred. The first is a sunk relief on the east face of the
north jamb of the gateway and shows a scene with three individuals. The individual on the left has
a beard shaped like the traditional fake beards worn by pharaos. The individuals in the middle and
on the right are wearing headdresses. The middle headdress resembles the Atef crown.
All three individuals have a uraeus on their headdress, which is an object worn above the brow
shaped like a snake. The individual on the left is not clearly wearing a headdress, but seems to
have a symbol above his head. This symbol is disk shaped and two tailes hanging from the sides
(Aldred 1978, 45).
Aldred interprets them as the pharaoh on the right, and Pedesi and Pihor on the left. He describes
the scene as the pharaoh offering a bag of eye paint to Pedesi. Pedesi is described in an inscription
as “the beneficent spirit”. The other individual wearing what Aldred interpreted as the circlets and
bull’s-tail appendages of pharaohs, was identified by Aldred as Pedesi’s brother Pihor (Aldred 1978,
45).