@article{2015,title={FIGURED RELIEFS OF DIYARBAKIR DAG KAPI},abstractNode={Diyarbakir is an ancient city built at the banks of Tigris River having an important place in the daily lives of Mesopotamian societies that kept its importance and vitality since the pre-historic ages. The city had its outer walls we see today had been built in the IV. Century, Byzantine era. The city walls have four main gates. The gate that leads the road to Harput is the Dag Kapi (the Mountain Gate). It has several inscriptions on the façade and, the towers facing each other at the vicinity have figures of lions, bulls, a pigeon, and a tree of life, horse and hand in reliefs. On the western tower we see reliefs of animals that are directly related to life. It is also understood that the figure of date palm is known in the Koran as an earthly and heavenly tree and it is located on the eastern wall, the direction that points out the heaven. This study has an iconographic approach to the reliefs on the eastern city walls with their meaningful figures and symbols.},author={Canan PARLA},year={2015},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}