10,1:1 Analiba

Both Miller 679 and Talbert agree that the omitted linework should be restored as a chicane under the label Analiba and elongated to terminate at Zimara on the right (Talbert 2544).

This solution may not be fully thought through. The two roads which converge here in the valley are both descents from rugged mountains.

 Maps of the terrain (see DARE) suggest the natural junction was probably at the Analiba Bridge over a tributary of the Euphrates, in which case we would have an explanation for the tight chicanes shown on the upper route and the scribe's confusion over how to copy the lower route: the lines would have been drawn to meet as an inverted T at Analibla (perhaps crossing the writing at the letter L which is now omitted), with a single road then continuing at right to (the northern gate of the fort at) Zimara. This shifting by one node in the network is of geographical interest only and does not throw any new light on the chart design, which is why I have not illustrated it by animation.

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