{{Short description|French archaeologist and Assyriologist (1918-1999)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Denise Cocquerillat | image = | caption = | birth_date = 8 June 1918 | birth_place = Granville, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1999|12|18|1918|06|08}} | death_place = Paris, France | residence = | citizenship = | workplaces = French National Centre for Scientific Research | alma_mater = École du Louvre | thesis_title = The Mace in Mesopotamian Iconography | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | signature = | footnotes = | prizes = | religion = | 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.
==Biography== 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=École du Louvre |first=Paris (France) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LkkwAQAAMAAJ&q=%2522Denise+Cocquerillat%2522+-wikipedia |title=Position des thèses et des mémoires |date=1956 |pages=349 |language=fr}}</ref>
She also studied ancient languages, such as Hebrew, Assyrian-Babylonian and Sumerian.<ref name="Spycket">{{Cite web |last=Spycket |first=Agnes |title=Women in Old World Archaeology |url=https://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/results.php?d=1&first=Denise&last=Cocquerillat |access-date=2022-02-09 |website=www.brown.edu}}</ref> She then devoted herself to the translation of cuneiform texts and became director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Denise Cocquerillat (1918-1999) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12597591/denise_cocquerillat/ |access-date=2022-02-09 |website=data.bnf.fr |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lion |first1=Brigitte |last2=Michel |first2=Cécile |date=2017 |title=Un demi-siècle d'archéologie et d'histoire du Proche-Orient ancien : la participation française |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/ista_0000-0000_2017_act_1392_1_3534 |journal=Collection de l'Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité |volume=1392 |issue=1 |pages=137–156}}</ref>
Denise Cocquerillat has dealt with about 10% of the 1500 published Neo-Babylonian tablets from Uruk<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2StXAAAAMAAJ&q=%2522Denise+Cocquerillat%2522+-wikipedia |title=Bulletin signalétique: Art et archéologie-Proche-Orient, Asie, Amérique. 526 |date=1977 |publisher=Centre de documentation du C.N.R.S. |pages=11 |language=fr}}</ref> and the legal texts of Babylon dating from the second millennium BC.<ref name="Spycket"/>
{{Blockquote |text=Until the end of her life and long after her retirement, Denise Cocquerillat was passionate about the civilizations of the Ancient Near East, continuing to take courses, not missing any exhibition in this field and very attached to the transformations of the rooms of the Oriental Antiquities of the Louvre Museum. |author=Agnes Spycket<ref name="Spycket"/>}}
==Works== *{{Cite book |last=Cocquerillat |first=Denise |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cUAOcgAACAAJ |title=Les prébendes patrimoniales dans les temples à l'époque de la Ire dynastie de Babylone |date=1955 |publisher= |language=fr}} *{{Cite book |last=Cocquerillat |first=Denise |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQhIAQAACAAJ |title=Aperçus sur la Phéniciculture en Babylonie à l'époque de la 1<sup>e</sup> dynastie de Babylone |date=1967 |publisher=Brill |language=fr}} *{{Cite book |last=Cocquerillat |first=Denise |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=quZtAAAAMAAJ |title=Palmeraies et cultures de l'Eanna d'Uruk 559-520 |date=1968 |publisher=Mann |language=fr}} *{{Cite book |last=Cocquerillat |first=Denise |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qwRaAQAACAAJ |title=Recherches sur le verger du temple campagnard de l'Akitu |date=1973 |publisher=Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht |language=fr}} *{{Cite journal |last=Cocquerillat |first=Denise |date=1981 |title=Compléments aux " Palmeraies et cultures de l'Eanna d'Uruk "(I) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23282327 |journal=Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale |volume=75 |issue=2 |pages=151–169 |jstor=23282327 |issn=0373-6032}} *{{Cite journal |last=Cocquerillat |first=Denise |date=1984 |title=Compléments aux " Palmeraies et cultures de l'Eanna d'Uruk " (II): L'aménagement de la campagne d'Uruk et son peuplement avant l'époque des Fermes générales (VIII e -VI e siècle av. J.-C.) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23282400 |journal=Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=49–70 |jstor=23282400 |issn=0373-6032}}
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