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    Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont (3 January 1868 in Aalst, Belgium – 20 August 1947 in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre near Brussels) was a Belgian archaeologist and historian...
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  • Cumont may refer to: Cumont (commune), a commune in southern France Lamothe-Cumont, another commune in Southern France, neighbouring Cumont Franz Cumont...
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    god – a relationship understood by Mithraic scholars since the days of Franz Cumont. An early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BCE...
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    Manilius, Astronomica, I.333ff. Manilius, Astronomica, V.389ff. Franz Cumont and Franz Boll, Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum, Vol. 5, part 1,...
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    Mithraic Studies. 2 (1): 1–17. Beck, Roger (1984). "Mithraism since Franz Cumont". In Haase, Wolfgang (ed.). Heidentum: Römische Götterkulte, Orientalische...
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    alone; the combination of "Dura-Europos" is modern, and was coined by Franz Cumont in 1922. Dura controlled the river crossing on the route between Seleucus's...
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  • Plutarch’s writing, and thus dubious evidence for actual behavior.:  314  Franz Cumont believed that Greco-Roman Mithraism had been influenced by some beliefs...
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    : 137  In his highly speculative reconstruction of Mithraic cosmogony, Franz Cumont positioned Aion as Unlimited Time (sometimes represented as Saeculum...
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    Jourdain Annequin with the project "Le « grand atelier de la science ». Franz Cumont et l'Altertumswissenschaft. Héritage et émancipations. Des études universitaires...
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    Iranian god, a point acknowledged by Mithras scholars since the days of Franz Cumont. The Greek form of the name appears in Xenophon's biography of Cyrus...
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    its extent (one volume) and that pseudo-Zoroaster 'sang' it (from which Cumont and Bidez[who?] conclude that it was in verse). Numerous other fragments...
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    Harpocrates "Heracles, Harpocrates statues unveiled in Greece". 27 March 2019. Franz Cumont, The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, Dover Publications, 1956....
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    Brussels. The chief editors in the earlier period of publication were Franz Cumont and Franz Boll. The CCAG was described as the "most important" modern survey...
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    other magi on his journey to Rome in 66. In the early 20th century, Franz Cumont speculated that Tiridates was instrumental in the development of Mithraism...
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    the original on April 22, 2008. Retrieved 2013-10-06. R.L. Gordon, "Franz Cumont and the Doctrines of Mithraism," in Mithraic Studies (Manchester University...
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    Meuleschettekapel Louis Paul Boon (1912–1979), writer and journalist Franz Cumont (1868–1947), archeologist, historian, and philologist Adolf Daens (1839–1907)...
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  • liturgy" was given to it by Dieterich, who dedicated the edition to Franz Cumont. But Cumont could not see the text as being Mithraic in origin. Gee believes...
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    Tauromachy Taurocathapsy Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, CIL XIII, 1751. Franz Cumont derived the word from the epithet of Artemis Tauropolos (whom he identified...
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    1970s most scholars followed Franz Cumont in identifying Mithras as a continuation of the Persian god Mithra. Cumont's continuity hypothesis led him...
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    Antiochus, was first attributed to Musa by the Belgian archeologist Franz Cumont. This attribution was agreed by several other scholars. The facial characteristics...
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    theology has been reconstructed that would account for Charon's obol. Franz Cumont regarded the numerous examples found in Roman tombs as "evidence of no...
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  • explored the lives and works of notable figures such as Giuseppe Mazzini, Franz Cumont, Mario Praz, Collin de Plancy and the enigmatic Gilles de Rais. Furthermore...
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    that the death-horse association stems from this role. According to Franz Cumont, its origins go back to the practice of burying or burning dogs and horses...
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    of Belgium (NBB) Marc Coucke (born 1965), co-founder of Omega Pharma Franz Cumont (1868–1947), historian Jean Daskalidès [nl] (1922–1992), gynecologist...
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    3rd-century Mithraic depiction of Zoroaster found in Dura Europos, Syria by Franz Cumont...
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    Introduction to the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy. Editions: Stefan Weinstock, in: Franz Cumont (ed.), Catalogus Codicum astrologorum Graecorum, (Brussels, 1940): V...
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    foundation princess Marie-José, which supports historical research. In 1947, Franz Cumont donated his library to the Academia Belgica. Pierre Bautier and Henri...
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  • art reflect images found in Mithraic reliefs.: 507  Franz Cumont was among these scholars. Cumont suggested that after the triumph of the Christian church...
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  • Thomas in India. Dalcassian Publishing Company. ISBN 9781087965710. Franz Cumont (1908). Recherches sur le manichéisme. Vol. 1. Bruxelles: H. Lamertin...
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    1989, p. 21. Brouwer 1989, pp. 79–80. Brouwer 1989, p. 293, Inscript. 8 Franz Cumont, "La Bona Dea et ses serpents", Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire...
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