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This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.

The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.

The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.

The city of Hatra was famed for its fusion of several civilization cults, which several temples devoted to gods from all Indo-European world.

A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.

After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.

The Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.

The Mithra Temple of Maragheh, also referred to as the Mithra Temple of Verjuy or simply Mehr Temple, is the oldest surviving Mithraic temple in Iran known to date.

Tauroctony in black marble on display at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.

This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.

The Stockstadt Raven is one of only two standing-alone sculptures of this bird to be found in Mithraic statuary.

The vessel to burn incense from the Mithraeum of Dieburg is similar to those found in other Roman cities of Germany

The two companions of Mithras carry a torch and a shepherd's staff at the third Mithraeum in Frankfurt-Heddernheim, formerly Nida.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from Nida's Mithraeum III was found in two pieces in 1887, destroyed during an air raid on Frankfurt in 1944, and restored in 1986.

Bas-relief depicting a naked Sol leaning over his fellow Mithras while raising a drinking horn during the sacred feast.

The first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.

The iconography of the platter of Ladenburg might evoke the food consumed during Mithraic banquets.

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.