In the case of the Moses narrative, it is usually assumed that it is based on the birth story of Sargon of Akkad (also known as "Sargon the Great"), with which it has clear overlaps. Depending on the dating, Sargon ruled as king of Akkad from 2356 to 2300 BC (short chronology) or 2292 to 2236 BC (middle chronology). His birth narrative goes as follows:

"Sargon, the strong king, the king of Akkad, I am. My mother was an outcast (?), I did not know my father. My father's relatives live in the mountains. My (birth) city is (the city of) Safran, which lies on the banks of the Euphrates. I was conceived by my mother, the outcast, who bore me secretly. She put me in a basket of reeds, she closed my lid with asphalt. She set me down on the river, from which I could no longer rise by myself. The river carried me, it brought me to Akki, the drawer of water. Akki, the drawer of water, truly brought me up by dipping the bucket. Akki, the drawer of water accepted me to his sonship(?), he truly raised me..."

^(Adapted from the translation of: Gerhards, M., 2006, Die Aussetzungsgeschichte des Mose. Literar- und traditionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu einem Schlüsseltext des nichtpriesterschriftlichen Tetrateuch (WMANT 109, Neukirchen-Vluyn, p.170ff))

As is often the case, there are divergent translations (e.g. by Joan Goodnick Westenholz), which is due to the linguistic ambiguity or simply the readability of individual passages of the fragment. The basic narrative, however, remains identical in all translations. In this respect, parallels can be discovered between the Moses and Sargon narratives, but a direct literary dependency cannot be proven with certainty, as is so often the case, even if it is quite probable.