Apports philologiques sur l'administration du royaume d'Idalion

The presentation of the Idalion Bronze in ICS 217, which is generally used by archaeologists and historians, has to be modified in some points. The most important one : the text does not offer a choice to the family of doctors, because the sequences e-tu-wa-no-i-nu and e-to-ko-i-nu in the decisive passages must be aorists followed by particles (eduwan oi(n)nu and ed ok' oi(n)nu) and not present optatives. Further is argumented that ka-te-wo-ro-ko-ne/ kateworgon/, "they besieged", might be an imperfect instead of an aorist ; the adjectives pa-no-ni-o-ne/ panonion/ and pa-no-ni-o-se/ panoniosl concern most probably the right to "use" and not the right to "sell" ; the verbal form e-xe I o-ru-xe/ exoruxë/ must belong to όρυσσω, "to dig", and not to όρίζω, "to divide" ; there might be a scribal error i- / i /, "and", instead of it it, "or" ; the expression pe-re-ta-li-o-ne/ per' Edalion/, "around Idalion", might present a trace of an archaic formula better attested in Vedic Indian

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