Kapara
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King Kapara (also Gabara) was an Aramean king of Bit Bahiani,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". one of the Post-Hittite states, centered in Guzana (modern Tell Halaf, in northeastern Syria).Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He ruled sometime in the 10th or 9th century BCE, according to some estimations ca. 950-875 BCE.[1] 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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Excavations in Tell Halaf, 1912
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Excavations in Tell Halaf, 1913
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A replica of the entrance to the palace of king Kapara at the National Museum of Aleppo
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An Aramean goddess
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An Aramean god
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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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