Kapara

Kapara

King Kapara (also Gabara) of Guzana (Tell Halaf) was the ruler of a small Aramaean kingdom of Bit Bahiani in the 10th or 9th century BC (Albright 1956 estimates ca. 950-875 BC). He built a so-called Hilani, a monumental palace in Neo-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.

References

* W. F. Albright, "The Date of the Kapara Period at Gozan (Tell Halaf), Anatolian Studies, (1956).

External links

* [http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Relief-Depicting-an-Archer-from-the-Palace-of-Kapara-King-of-Guzama-Tell-Halaf-Syria-Basalt-Posters_i1345360_.htm Orthostat relief: archer]
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=3&viewmode=0&item=43.135.2 Orthostat relief: hunting scene]
* [http://www.thewalters.org/works_of_art/itemdetails.aspx?aid=132 Orthostat relief: wrestling scene]
* [http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/s/stone_relief_of_a_lion-hunt_fr.aspx Orthostat relief: lion hunt]
* [http://mobposters.com/index.php?item=1345453 Orthostat relief: Gilgamesh between two bull-men supporting a winged sun disk]


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