"Foreword" to the volume of Tohru Ozaki – Marcel Sigrist – Sergio Tang, The Rosen Collection Texts at the Yale Peabody Museum, Nisaba 34, DICAM, Messina 2023

Succeeding to Professor Francesco Pomponio, who is now retired, in the capacity of Scientific Director of the Series "Nisaba. Studi Assiriologici Messinesi", I am pleased to announce the publication of the 34th volume of the Series "Nisaba. Studi Assiriologici Messinesi", of the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilisations (DICAM) of the University of Messina. The volumes published so far in the Nisaba Series contain the editions of texts belonging to collections of various museums, especially the British Museum, but also from the Harvard Semitic Museum, and the Yale Babylonian Collection, as is the case with the present volume. Indeed, in Nisaba 34 more than 1200 economic tablets are published and catalogued, the great majority of which are from the Rosen Babylonian Collection, in the Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University, New Haven (USA). All texts are dated to the Neo-Sumeric period (ca. 2110-2003 BCE) and originated from Puzriš-Dagan, Ĝirsu/Lagaš and mainly from Umma. The edition presented in Nisaba 34 is the result of the cooperation between Tohru Ozaki, Marcel Sigrist, and Sergio Tang. Sigrist originally read 709 texts, to which Tang added 495 more texts in 2018. From 2022 to 2023, Dr Klaus Wagensonner photographed the tablets and made them readily available for viewing on the Internet.