knowledge to the kingdom of Kush, for which he received a royal title. Wayekiye and his wife Taêse were later buried in Kushite territory, where the king of Kush may have awarded them with land. Wayekiye's brother-in-law, Manitawawi, was a prophet, , and agent of Isis who hailed from a family that had long been in service to the goddess. In an inscription, he described himself as the chief of the Triakontaschoinos, prince of Takompso on the border between Roman Egypt and Kush, and as the "agent, scribe, and chief ritualist" of the king of Kush. He married a Kushite noblewoman and had at least two children, including another Wayekiye (called Wayekiye B), who later became a pelmos (district commissioner) of the Kushite king. Around 250 (possibly 253), Wayekiye (A)'s son Hornakhtyotef II was the high priest of Thoth at Dakka. He left an inscription in both hieroglyphics and Demotic, where he describes himself as "prince of the country of Takompso, chief ritualist of the King of Kush... hont-priest [prophet] of Sothis [Sopdet], General of the Moon, waab-priest of the Five Living Stars [the five planets], who knows the time of the darkening of Sun and Moon." This identifies him as not only a hierogrammateis but as a "ritualist", or a colleague of the Per Ankh, an Egyptian clerical institution compiling ritual and scientific knowledge. This may explain Hornakhtyotef's use of hieroglyphics at a time when the ancient script was rarely used in Egypt. Hornakhtyotef reports that he received royal decrees from the king of Kush, who he calls "my lord". It appears that by the mid-third century, priests such as Hornakhtyotef, who were ethnically Nubian but part of the largely Egyptian clerical hierarchy of Egypt, served as conduits of Kushite influence into Egypt's southern periphery. Up to the early third century, the Wayekiye dated their inscriptions with the regnal years of Roman emperors, recognizing Roman suzerainty. But Hornakhtyotef uses a Kushite regnal year, possibly that of Teqerideamani II. Hornakhtyotef's grandson Wygte was also a prophet, , and agent of Isis; he is the last member of the family known to have held priestly titles. Wayekiye (A) had another son, Qorene, who was also pelmos. He is known from an inscription in which he prays to the gods for a safe journey to Meroë and to make the Kushite king have favor on him. His son Bekemete reached the position