Chemistry and Chemical Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia

Akkadian Al-Kindi Alalakh alkali alloy alum ancient Mesopotamia apparatus aqueous Arabic Assyrian Babylonian beer bread bronze casting cedar chemical chemistry clay cloth color copper Cuneiform diqaru pot distillation Dynasty early EBELING Erech Erech New Haven essential oils evidence extraction fire flour furnace gall nut gypsum heat hide Hittite honey Ibid impurities Iraq known later leather LEGRAIN Leipzig lexical list lexical text literature London medicine MEISSNER mentioned Mesopotamian metal method millennium B.C. minas mordant Nabonidus Neo-Babylonian Nippur Nuzi obtained operations Orientalia perfume texts period Philadelphia plant probably pulverized refining salt second millennium B.C. seed sesame oil shekels shekels of gold skins smelting soap soda solution stone STRASSMAIER sublimation substances Sumer Sumerian tablet tannin tanning Tepe Gawra third millennium B.C. THOMPSON thou shalt THUREAU-DANGIN Ugaritic vats vessel washing wool ZIMMERN