Restored Statues from Gozan (Tell Halaf)
The stone statues shown here, reconstructions of those that ornamented the façade of Aramaean King Kapara’s tenth-century B.C. palace at Gozan (modern Tell Halaf, Syria), stand at the entrance to the National Museum of Aleppo, Syria. The Assyrians under Adad-Nirari II (reigned c. 912 B.C.–891 B.C.) exacted tribute from Gozan, and Adad-Nirari III annexed it as an Assyrian province in 808 B.C.
2 Kgs 17:6, 2 Kgs 18:11, 2 Kgs 19:12, 1 Chr 5:26, Isa 37:12
Image by user سائد راجي, from Wikimedia Commons. License: Public Domain
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