World's first recorded chemist and perfumer

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I just found out something rather interesting. The world's first recorded

chemist and perfume maker was a woman, Tapputi, from Mesopotamia. According to

Wikipedia she was " was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second

millennium BC in Mesopotamia....She distilled flowers, oil, and calamus with

other aromatics then filtered and put them back in the still several times. " The

first recorded author and poet is also a woman from Mesopotamia, Enheduanna, who

was a high priestess. She elevated the goddess Inanna to great stature in that

country. I wonder if they lived about the same time. I think I'll do some

snooping....

[Guest guest]

I just found out something rather interesting. The world's first recorded

chemist and perfume maker was a woman, Tapputi, from Mesopotamia. According

to Wikipedia she was " was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second

millennium BC in Mesopotamia....She distilled flowers, oil, and calamus with

other aromatics then filtered and put them back in the still several times. "

The first recorded author and poet is also a woman from Mesopotamia,

Enheduanna, who was a high priestess. She elevated the goddess Inanna to

great stature in that country. I wonder if they lived about the same time. I

think I'll do some snooping....

How interesting! Please let us know what you find out.

Sonsa in Phoenix

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> I just found out something rather interesting. The world's first recorded

> chemist and perfume maker was a woman, Tapputi, from Mesopotamia. According

> to Wikipedia she was " was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second

> millennium BC in Mesopotamia....She distilled flowers, oil, and calamus with

> other aromatics then filtered and put them back in the still several times. "

> The first recorded author and poet is also a woman from Mesopotamia,

> Enheduanna, who was a high priestess. She elevated the goddess Inanna to

> great stature in that country. I wonder if they lived about the same time. I

>

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" The world's first recorded chemist is a person named lafaunda , a perfume maker

who was mentioned in a Cuneiform tablet from the 2nd millennium BC in

Mesopotamia.[1] "

On Wikipedia's History of perfume, lafaunda is mentioned...wonder if it's the

same person or a collaborator.

Caren

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> " The world's first recorded chemist is a person named lafaunda , a perfume

maker who was mentioned in a Cuneiform tablet from the 2nd millennium BC in

Mesopotamia.[1] "

> On Wikipedia's History of perfume, lafaunda is mentioned...wonder if it's the

same person or a collaborator.

>

> Caren

Interesting...I googled both " Tapputi Mesopotamia " and " lafaunda Mesopotamia "

to see what would come up. There were many entries for the first search. In one

she was listed as one of the great chemists of Mesopotamia and her name was

given as Tapputi-Belatekallim by someone who had written a book on the country.

Another Wikipedia came up that said she was also the overseer of a palace and

worked with a researcher named Ninu. I didn't get as many entries for the second

search - only eight and most of them were for were blogs and two for wiki sites,

although there was one book related reference to her. Then I plugged in

" lafaunda Tapputi " to see what came up and got basically nothing. I wonder if

lafaunda is a title of some sort since it is not capitalized? I guess it will

have to remain a mystery until further notice....