By Natali Moss
Turkish scientists conducted a wide study of Mesopotamian methods of making Tapputa perfumes. Their goal was to first understand what she was doing and then reproduce her work as much as possible. Now they have partially achieved their goal, although the efforts to translate and interpret the aromas will continue. Archaeologists have found the name of Tapputi on a pair of cuneiform tablets found during excavations in southern Turkey.
On the tablets, her full name was a Tapuputa-Beltekalim, where Beltekalim means "female palace female. " The plates were dated 1200 BC. On the Tapput tablets, she recorded the formulas of her perfumes and the detailed steps she used to create aromas, ancient Akkadian. Fortunately, scientists know this language enough so that it can be translated what it wrote.
So experts learned that to produce their ancient perfumes, Tapputi used a combination of different types of flowers, oils, air, sits, myrri, horseradish, spices and balm, and these are just some of the identified ingredients. She mixed her Varev with water or other solvents, overtook them, and then filtered the liquid product many times to create a cleaner formula of Mesopotamian perfume, which smells pleasantly. Scientists were able to completely reproduce one of the formulas of its aroma.
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