"ashipu" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, JoAnn Scurlock, edited by Abusch & van der Toorn, Mesopotamian Magic, page 79:",
          "text": "Whatever the patient's requirements, however, the āšipu is unlikely to have had time to acquire more than a basic working knowledge of the medicaments which he was attempting to use.",
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          "ref": "2010, Barbara A Somervill, Empires of Ancient Mesopotamia, page 120:",
          "text": "The average Mesopotamian believed the cause of stomachaches, headaches, and other mysterious aches was a demon in the body. The remedy was to call an ashipu for a cure.",
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          "ref": "2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 49:",
          "text": "Virtually all the evidence that we possess for the practice of Mesopotamian magic consists of the records amassed by and for the āshipu […]",
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        "A magical healer in ancient Mesopotamia."
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        "(historical) A magical healer in ancient Mesopotamia."
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        {
          "word": "āshipu"
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        {
          "word": "asipu"
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          "ref": "2010, Barbara A Somervill, Empires of Ancient Mesopotamia, page 120:",
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