Kapara

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]}

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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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  A stele depicting of Hadad and Ishtar
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  An Aramean goddess
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  An Aramean god
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  A stele depicting two guardian lions