The Wayekiye family was a Nubian priestly family that was influential in the Dodekaschoinos between Upper Egypt and Nubia in the second and third centuries CE, named after two of its members. They are attested by mostly Demotic temple inscriptions. Although the Roman government directed the taxes of the Dodekaschoinos to the Egyptian temple cults of Isis of Philae and Thoth of Dakka, most of the population was not ethnically Egyptian but Nubian, as were local elites like the Wayekiye. The family eventually came to serve the Nubian Kushite court of Meroë and may have acted as a "vehicle for the penetration of Meroitic royal authority" into the area, culminating in Kush's annexation of the area in the third century. History Among the earliest known members of the family, Paêse, describes himself in a late second-century adorational text as holding the Nubian titles of and ("agent") of the Egyptian goddess Isis. These titles appear to have referred to religious officials who served a central governing body made up of the senior clergy of the Dodekaschoinos, and were not reserved to only devotees of Isis herself. Reflecting his ethnic background, Paêse's adorations were typical of those inscribed by Nubian pilgrims to Egyptian temples, but not of ethnic Egyptians themselves. Paêse had several children, two of which were Makaltami and Bêk. Makaltami was a third-century strategos and financial manager of temples, who probably had jurisdiction over the entire Dodekaschoinos. He carved a prayer in a temple portico which was reserved for high-ranking priests, suggesting that he also had a senior position in the priestly hierarchy. Makaltami was also the first of the family to hold a Kushite title. Bêk was another " and agent of Isis" who carried out restoration work for the Dakka temple. Wayekiye (A) was a grandson of Paêse by his daughter Tꜣ- špš and his son-in-law Hornakhtyotef I, and is known from an inscription he made in 227/228. Wayekiye identifies his father as a of Isis, and himself as the prophet of Sopdet, the goddess of the star Sirius, and the priest of "the five living stars [planets]". Later in the same inscription, he calls himself the "chief wizard of the King of Kush". From this description, Wayekiye seems to have been a hierogrammateis, a priestly astronomer in Egyptian religion who was responsible for the calendrical sciences. It is likely that Wayekiye introduced advanced Egyptian calendrical and astronomical