Western Backbone Gate

Western Backbone Gate is a main entrance to Kartam, situated on the Tudhanian Walls in the more prestigious right-bank areas. Built between 566-567 it has been serving continously as the busiest passageway. The gatehouse is of a double design, a hundred feet tall. Two portcullis and two separate gate mechanism can completely block it from the outside while the both tower houses have inside killing zones where intruders can be entrapped. In the interior there is a court edged by tall, unscalable walls full of murders holes and battlements to make the advance of the attackers even harder, who have to penetrate three separate line of defences.

All of the building was comissioned by Tudhan IV, planned and executed by Amoratte Hasdrubilis. Similar large Backbone Gates are situated in the north, east and south respectively, with some thirty-two other major gates serving ususal trafic to and from the city.