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Tapputi

Babylonian perfume maker and chemist

Babylonian perfume maker and chemist

Tapputi, also referred to as Tapputi-Belatekallim ("Belatekallim" refers to a female overseer of a palace),{{citation

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).

Work

Tapputi used the first recorded still and wrote the first known treatise on perfume making, which is preserved on a clay tablet. She developed a technique using solvents in order to make scents lighter and longer lasting.

References

References

  1. (1999). "Women of Science: Righting the Record". Indiana Univ. Press.
  2. Levey, Martin. (1973). "Early Arabic Pharmacology: An Introduction Based on Ancient and Medieval Sources". Brill Archive.
  3. 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.
  4. Rhoades, Tiffany. (2017-01-31). "Tapputi Belatekallim, the First Chemist".
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