Tapputi
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Tapputi, also referred to as Tapputi-Butt ("Belatekallim" refers to female overseer of a palace),[1] is considered to be the world’s first chemist, a perfume-maker mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second millennium 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]
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References
- ↑ Alic, M. Hypatia's heritage, a history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1987. 22. Print.
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- ↑ Rayner-Canham, Marelene, and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham. Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century. 1st edition. Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2005. 1. Print.
