Tapputi
Tapputi, also referred to as Tapputi-Belatekallim ("Belatekallim" refers to a female overseer of a palace),[1] is one of the world's first recorded chemists, a perfume-maker mentioned in a cuneiform tablet dated around 1200 BC in Babylonian Mesopotamia.[2] She used flowers, oil, and calamus along with cyperus, myrrh, and balsam. She added water or other solvents then distilled and filtered several times.[3] This is also the oldest referenced still.
She also was an overseer at the Royal Palace, and worked with a researcher named (—)-ninu (the first part of her name has been lost).[4]
Work
Tapputi used the first recorded still and wrote the first known treatise on perfume making, which is preserved on a
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In popular culture
- Tapputi is one of the main characters of the animated webseries Super Science Friends
See also
References
- ISBN 9780253208132.
- ISBN 90-04-03796-9.
- ^ Rayner-Canham, Marelene, and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham. Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century. First edition. Chemical Heritage Foundation, 9 June 2005. 1. Print.
- ^ Rhoades, Tiffany (31 January 2017). "Tapputi Belatekallim, the First Chemist". Girl Museum. Retrieved 16 March 2024.