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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