Personal name · Semitic

A-SE-JA

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

Reading
Āsīya
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
A-SE-JA

Commentary

HT 115a .4 A-SE-JA with four fraction signs, between PA-RA-NE and KA-PO-RU in a list of names (GORILA I 189). Asīya ‘my physician’, short for ì-lí-a-si-ia ‘my god is my physician’ (GlOS 1, 47); a-sí-ia at Mari (Ziegler 1999, 262), Kiš and Dilbat (de Boer 2014, 398, 410). See the lexicon entry. One witness.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry A-SE-JA.

  • Akkadianasûasû ‘physician’; ì-lí-a-si-ia ‘my god is my physician’ (GlOS 1, 47)
  • Aramaicʾsyʾsy ‘physician’ (DNWSI 88)
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