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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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