| Denise Cocquerillat | |
| Birth Date: | 8 June 1918 |
| Birth Place: | Granville, France |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Workplaces: | French National Centre for Scientific Research |
| Alma Mater: | École du Louvre |
| Thesis Title: | The Mace in Mesopotamian Iconography |
| Field: | Assyriology, specialist in cuneiform texts |
Denise Cocquerillat (8 June 1918, Granville - 18 December 1999, Paris) was a French archaeologist and Assyriologist, specialist in cuneiform texts.
She studied at the École du Louvre and passed a thesis (“The Mace in Mesopotamian Iconography”) on 22 December 1947 with Georges Contenau and André Parrot as members of the jury.[1]
She also studied ancient languages, such as Hebrew, Assyrian-Babylonian and Sumerian.[2] She then devoted herself to the translation of cuneiform texts and became director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.[3] [4]
Denise Cocquerillat has dealt with about 10% of the 1500 published Neo-Babylonian tablets from Uruk[5] and the legal texts of Babylon dating from the second millennium BC.[2]