Kapara

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. . F. Albright, ''The Date of the Kapara Period at Gozan (Tell Halaf), Anatolian Studies, (1956)./ref> 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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Orthostat relief: archerOrthostat relief: hunting sceneOrthostat relief: lion huntOrthostat relief: Relief with Two Heroes

Aramean kings
10th-century BC Aramean kings
9th-century BC Aramean kings