L’espressione (ANA) PANI NP nei colofoni ittiti
In the colophons of some Hittite texts of the late 13. century BC, the name of the scribe occurs sometimes in the formulas (ŠU) NP (...) (ANA) PANI NP (...) IŠṬUR. The formula with the simple PANI NP attests that the text has been examined and approved by an authority, the so called ‘supervisor’, above all regarding its conformity to the original, but not that he was present in the writing process. The formula ANA PANI NP instead attests that the scribe worked ‘in the presence of’ an authority really present as witness