blossoms, a style first used in Egypt between 664 and 525 BCE. Next is the antechamber or offering hall. Originally separated by wooden doors, the antechamber opens into the sanctuary where the Egyptians believed the gods resided. Inside the sanctuary was a repository stone for sacred bark and a statue niche. The back wall of the sanctuary has a hidden chamber that is 9.5 feet long by 6 feet long x 2.25 feet wide. The chamber is accessed by pivoting a block of stone on the outer southern wall. Its purpose is unknown. In the cliffs behind the temple, there was a small chamber cut into the rock face. It may have been where Pedesi and Pihor were buried or a representation of their tomb. Ornamental decorations Amelia Edwards, an English writer who visited the temple on her 19th-century tour up the Nile, wrote:At Dendoor, when the sun is setting...we visit a tiny Temple on the western bank. It stands out above the river surrounded by a wall of enclosure...The whole thing is like an exquisite toy, so covered with sculptures, so smooth, so new-looking, so admirably built. Seeing them half by sunset, half by dusk, it matters not that these delicately-wrought bas-reliefs are of the Decadence school. The rosy half-light of an Egyptian afterglow covers a multitude of sins, and steeps the whole in an atmosphere of romance.The temple is decorated throughout with relief carvings which were originally painted in bright colors. The figures depicted include Augustus as a pharaoh interacting with goddesses and gods. Some of those divine beings are Amum of Debod, Arsenuphis, Harpocrates, Hathor of Bigga, Horus, Isis, Khnum, Osiris, Harpocrates, Mandulis, Nephthys, Satis, Tephenis, and Thoth. The carvings also honor two heroic Nubian brothers turned demigods named Pihor and Pedesi. Pedesi means "he whom Isis has given" and, Pihor means "he who belongs to Horus." The temple base has carvings of papyrus and lotus plants growing out of the Nile, symbolizing the god Hapi. Over the pylon and above the entrance to the temple proper is the Winged sun disk of the sky god Horus, representing the sky. The vultures on the ceiling of the pronaos repeat the sky motif. The antechamber and the sanctuary are undecorated, except for the reliefs on the antechamber door frame and the back walls of the sanctuary. The latter show Pihor and Pedesi as young gods worshiping Isis and