and clarify a problem’;24 and Harry Shaw offers: ‘a defense and justification for some doctrine, piece of writing, cause or action’.25 But let one apply the magic wand and one can remove the text from the genre of apology and argue that it is not history writing. This becomes even harder to accept when one considers Van Seters’s argument. He claims that an apology implies a ‘legal context’ and the text of Hattušili is, therefore, not an apology. But on Van Seters’s own admission, the Hattušili text