# A-SE (ʾāsē) > physician, healer A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: ʾāsē - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*ʾsy]() 'physician' 1, 'to treat, heal' 2 - Kind: Personnel - Language: Semitic - Signs: A (a) · SE (se) ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *asû* — asû 'physician' (GlOS 1, 47) - Aramaic: *ʾsy* — ʾsy 'physician' (DNWSI 88) - Arabic: *ʔāsin* — ʔāsin 'physician' (GlOS 1, 47) ## Attestations - [HT 81](): A-SE MI+JA+RU ≈ ¹⁄₆ - [HT 93a](): A-SE I GRA+PA 26 ³⁄₄ — physician (recipient) - [HT 132](): A-SE A319 5 - [ZA Zb 3](): DI-DI-KA-SE A-SA-MU-NE A-SE — the Physician (title of Eshmun) ## Commentary HT 81 A-SE · MI+JA+RU · ≈⅙, HT 93a A-SE · I GRA+PA 26¾, HT 132 A-SE · A319 5: A-SE opens an entry, then a divider and a commodity; ZA Zb 3, a clay vessel, writes VIN 32 over DI-DI-KA-SE A-SA-MU-NE A-SE. Four attestations at two sites, on tablets and a vessel. ʾāsē 'physician', a culture word from Sum. azu: Akk. asû, Aram. ʔsy(ʔ), Arb. ʔāsin, and the Euphrates name ì-lí-a-si-ia 'my god is my physician' (GlOS 1, 47); Official Aramaic, Nabataean and Palmyrene ʾsy 'physician' (DNWSI 88). Hebrew Asa is read 'physician' by Stamm (HALOT 73). Each entry is an allocation to the physician: myrrh, a drug, on HT 81; grain on HT 93a, as QA-QA-RU receives the same grain; on ZA Zb 3 the title follows Eshmun, the healing god, as A-KO-A-NE follows PI-TE-RI. Rival: ʾaššē 'fire offering', Heb. ʾiššeh (HALOT 93). Weak point: the West Semitic forms are Aramaic and Arabic; the Bronze Age witnesses are names, ì-lí-a-si-ia (GlOS 1, 47) and Asīya (A-SE-JA). See I-SI. ## Same root - [A-SE-JA]() (Āsīya) ## In the onomasticon - [A-SE](): Title, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1; DNWSI; HALOT - HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SE/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.