A set of Greek inscriptions from the temple of the Nubian oracular god Mandulis in Talmis-Kalabchah caught the interest of many scholars after they were published by H. Gauthier in 1910. The commentators stressed the highly sophisticated – though somewhat awkward – use of Greek metrics and references while also underlining the traditional and theological Egyptian background of these very special proscynemata. For A. D. Nock, they were no doubt elaborated by a high ranking Roman officer visiting the neighbouring garrison of Talmis, fascinated, like many young Greek or Roman men, by Egyptian civilization and knowledge and seeking the signs of the local god. But a learned officer or traveller from Rome would hardly have been allowed to inscribe those texts in a working Egyptian temple, and priestly control would have been, in any case, a sine qua non condition. Furthermore, it seems that these Greek hymns dedicated to a very local god with oracular powers – as the Egyptian texts show – were composed in Egyptian priestly circles. They show how involved in Hellenism the Egyptian priests were, as early as the 2nd or 3rd Century AD. We see, for example, that the Nubian god Mandulis is compared both with Apollo the foreteller and with Aiôn, the Greek figure of Eternity. But the very nature of the signs of the god remains definitely Egyptian, in the spite of the guise of the interpretatio Graeca.