The South Gate was probably the main gate of the inner town.
Sources:
- Alessandra Gilibert, Syro-Hittite Monumental Art and the Archaeology of Performance: The Stone Reliefs at Carchemish and Zincirli in the Earlier First Millennium BCE, Walter de Gruyter, 2011, p. 22f
- Nicolò Marchetti, Karkemish on the Euphrates: Excavating a City's History, Near Eastern Archaeology, 75(3), 2012, pp. 132–147