Kapara
Aramean king
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::summary Aramean king ::
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| name | Kapara |
| succession | King of Bit Bahiani |
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King Kapara (also Gabara) was an Aramean king of Bit Bahiani, one of the Post-Hittite states, centered in Guzana (modern Tell Halaf, in northeastern Syria). He ruled sometime in the 10th or 9th century BCE, according to some estimations ca. 950-875 BCE. 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.
File:Max von Oppenheim. Tell Halaf. 1912.jpg|Excavations in Tell Halaf, 1912 File:Max von Oppenheim. Tell Halaf. 1913.jpg|Excavations in Tell Halaf, 1913 File:Aleppo Tell Halaf replica in National Museum 0092.jpg|A replica of the entrance to the palace of king Kapara at the National Museum of Aleppo File:Gerettetegötter sitzendespaar2.JPG|A stele depicting of Hadad and Ishtar File:Gerettetegötter göttin1.JPG|An Aramean goddess File:Statue TellHalaf 01.jpg|An Aramean god File:Gerettetegötter löwen.JPG|A stele depicting two guardian lions
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- [W. F. Albright, ''The Date of the Kapara Period at Gozan (Tell Halaf)'', Anatolian Studies, (1956).]
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