King Kapara (also Gabara) was an Aramean king of Bit Bahiani,[1] one of the Post-Hittite states, centered in Guzana (modern Tell Halaf, in northeastern Syria).[2] He ruled sometime in the 10th or 9th century BCE, according to some estimations ca. 950-875 BCE.[3] He built Bit-hilani, a monumental palace in Post-Hittite style, discovered by Max von Oppenheim in 1911, with a rich decoration of statues and relief orthostats.
In 894 BC, the Assyrian king Adad-nirari II recorded the site in his archives as a tributary Aramaean city-state. In 808 BC the city and its surrounding area was reduced to a province of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.[citation needed]
Excavations in Tell Halaf, 1912
Excavations in Tell Halaf, 1913
A replica of the entrance to the palace of king Kapara at the National Museum of Aleppo
A stele depicting of Hadad and Ishtar
An Aramean goddess
An Aramean god
A stele depicting two guardian lions
^Lipiński 2000, p. 121.
^Lipiński 2000, p. 130-132.
^[W. F. Albright, The Date of the Kapara Period at Gozan (Tell Halaf), Anatolian Studies, (1956).]
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Excavations in Tell Halaf, 1912
Excavations in Tell Halaf, 1913
A replica of the entrance to the palace of king Kapara at the National Museum of Aleppo
A stele depicting of Hadad and Ishtar
An Aramean goddess
An Aramean god
A stele depicting two guardian lions
