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. She also studied ancient languages, such as Hebrew, Assyrian-Babylonian and
Sumerian. She then devoted herself to the translation of cuneiform texts and became director of research at the
French National Centre for Scientific Research. Denise Cocquerillat has dealt with about 10% of the 1500 published
Neo-Babylonian tablets from
Uruk and the legal texts of
Babylon dating from the
second millennium BC. ==Works==