# A-SE-JA (Āsīya)

> Asīya, personal name, '(DN is) my physician'

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Āsīya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾsy](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/4409/index.md>) 'physician' 1, 'to treat, heal' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · SE (se) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *asû* — asû 'physician'; ì-lí-a-si-ia 'my god is my physician' (GlOS 1, 47)
- Aramaic: *ʾsy* — ʾsy 'physician' (DNWSI 88)

## Attestations

- [HT 115a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115a/index.md>): A-SE-JA 𐝂𐝂𐝂𐝂 — Asīya (personal name, 'my physician'), ⅔

## Commentary

HT 115a .4 A-SE-JA with four fraction signs, whole and undotted, among the names of a palimpsest list under *47-NU-RA-JA and GRA+BOSm (GORILA I 189), between PA-RA-NE and KA-PO-RU. Asīya 'my physician', the short form of the Euphrates name ì-lí-a-si-ia 'my god is my physician' (GlOS 1, 47), from A-SE ʾāsē. The name is written a-sí-ia, sign for sign: a woman of the Mari palace (Ziegler 1999, 262), and men at early Old Babylonian Kiš and Dilbat (de Boer 2014, 398, 410). Rivals: the Nuzi name Aziya, A-zi-ia (Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943, 41); the Ugaritic name ủsy (DULAT 111). One attestation.

## Same root

- [A-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SE/index.md>) (ʾāsē)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-SE-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-SE-JA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Ziegler, Nele (1999), Florilegium marianum IV: Le Harem de Zimrî-Lîm. Mémoires de N.A.B.U. 5,SEPOA, Paris
- de Boer, Rients (2014), Amorites in the Early Old Babylonian Period. 
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park
- DNWSI: Hoftijzer, J.; Jongeling, K.; with appendices by R. C. Steiner, A. Mosak Moshavi and B. Porten (1995), Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions. E. J. Brill, Leiden/New York/Köln (Handbuch der Orientalistik I/21), 2 parts

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