Daily Gazette/102

The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

Limestone tauroctony relief from Carnuntum with traces of polychromy and a graffito on the bull’s neck. The inscribed base was carved separately.

The Caernarfon candelabrum is a reconstruction of several iron pieces found in the Mithraeum of Caernarfon.

Votive sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull from the Mithraeum of Tarquinia.

This bust of a lion-headed figure has been was part of a French private collection.

The Mithras temple of Prilep is in a small grotto under the castle of Markovi-Kuli.

A standing half naked man makes offerings to an altar while holding a cornucopia in his other hand.

A possible Mithraeum II was found in Bingen, but the few remains are not sufficient to prove it.

The Dunaújváros Mithraeum was discovered in 1973.

The sculpture of Dobrosloveni, Romania, has a hole from where water flowed.

This limestone statue of Cautes is now exposed at Great North Museum of Newcastle.

The two fellows of Mithras from Marquise, Boulogne-sur-Mer, are fully naked but for the cloak and the Phrygian cap.

The Mithraeum of Martigny is the first temple devoted to Mithras found in Switzerland.

The Mithra Tauroctonos from Syracuse, Sicily, is currently on display in the city's archaeological museum.

The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

In the Tauroctony of Hermopolis, Cautes and Cautopates are placed over two columns at each side of the sacrifice.

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.