A Blessing
Hekanefer and his troops were defeated in the war against the Hittites. Hekanefer is riding his horse when about three thousand out of his 10,000 troops came home to Kush with him. His face is a drawing of sad, tired and weak man not only defeated losing thousands of his men and women, but also the moment that he found out about Henshupta. Sakhbe gave him the good news that the queen is pregnant with his child but gone off to Egypt to reclaim her throne, which is about one and a half month travel by horse.
Hekanefer’s spirits lifted up and a hope of a new beginning made his aura change from gloomy to rejoicing. He is to become a father soon and this is a birth of a new era of a beautiful relationship between Nubia and Egypt. But will Thebe-Egyptians accept the Nubian-Sudanese.
He cleaned himself up and ordered his general with a dozen of archers and soldiers to come with him to protect Queen Henshupta, Egypt’s pharaoh.