Kapara

Kapara
King of Bit Bahiani

Rider and horse relief from the palace now in the British Museum

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

This relief carving was found at the temple-palace of Guzana. It depicts two heroes subduing a foe. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

References

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

External links

• Orthostat relief: archer
• Orthostat relief: hunting scene
• Orthostat relief: lion hunt
• Orthostat relief: Relief with Two Heroes