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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.

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