Tappà «të-BÃÂlet-Ekallim () is one of the world's first recorded chemists. She was a perfumer active in Assur during the reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I. As mentioned in a cuneiform tablet dated around 1200 BC, she used flowers, oil, and calamus along with cyperus, myrrh, and balsam, which after adding water and other solvents were distilled and filtered several times.
She also was an overseer at the Royal Palace and worked with someone named (âÂÂ)-ninu (the first part of her name has been lost).