Jimmy Daccache is an epigraphist specializing in the Northwest Semitic world, with expertise in Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Aramaic in all its dialects, including Syriac. She received her PhD from Paris IV Sorbonne in 2013. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the Semitic god Rašap, whose cult spanned a broad chronological range (3rd to 1st millennium BCE) and was attested across diverse regions including Syria, Phoenicia, Cyprus, Israel, and Egypt. Her primary fields of interest are the religions, cultures, and histories of the Northwest Semitic world, approached through both epigraphic evidence and textual analysis.
From 2011 to 2016, she held a postdoctoral position within the European Research Council–funded project Floriental: From Babylon to Baghdad: Towards a History of the Herbal in the Near East, under the supervision of Robert Hawley at the CNRS (UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée – Mondes sémitiques). Her work centered on the critical edition of Syriac translations of Greek medical texts, particularly treatises on dietetics and pharmacology attributed to Galen, transmitted and adapted in the context of 9th-century Abbasid Baghdad.
She currently serves as co-director of the Recueil des inscriptions syriaques de Turquie (RIS – Turquie), a long-term research project aimed at documenting and publishing Syriac inscriptions from southeastern Türkiye. As part of this initiative, she conducts regular epigraphic surveys in the province of Şanlıurfa and neighboring regions. In parallel, she collaborates on the publication of the Phoenician ostraca from Kition (Cyprus), based on fieldwork carried out during multiple epigraphic expeditions. Her ongoing research also involves the paleographic study of Syriac inscriptions, undertaken within the framework of the E-Twoto project, which she co-directs.