BOTTERO, JEAN

(1914–2007)

   French Assyriologist and historian. His numerous publications gained a wide general readership in France and, through the translations into English, in many other countries. Having early joined and later left the Order of Dominicans, he remained deeply interested in religion and wrote several books on the subject of Mesopotamian religions (La Religion babylonienne, 1952; Mythes et rites de Babylone, 1985; La plus vieille Religion, En Mesopotamie, 1998). He also worked on a collection of Old Babylonian recipes, published in English as The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia, in 2004.