Tapputi
Tapputi , also called Tapputi-Belatekallim (where the name Belatekallim refers to a female guardian of a palace) was a chemist and perfumer .
She is considered the first woman chemist in the world. It was written on a cuneiform tablet in Babylonian Mesopotamia around 1200 BC. Chr. Mentioned as a manufacturer of a perfume . She is said to have used oils from flower leaves, calamus , sedge , and myrrh . She added water or other solvents to the oil mixture and then distilled and then filtered several times. She worked with a researcher named (-) ninu (the first part of her name was lost on the tablet), who was also mentioned on the cuneiform tablet.
Web links
- Zing Tsjeng: Tapputi-Belatekallim extract from Forgotten Women: The Scientists Cosmos (magazine)
- The beginnings of chemistry The standard
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laura S. Privalle: Women in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Biotechnology , Springer Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-52200-5, limited preview in the Google book search
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tapputi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tapputi-Belatekallim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | first chemist and perfumer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 12th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 12th century BC Chr. |