Some Clues of a Number of Manor Houses, Fire Temples and Governmental Buildings Belong to the Historical Period in the Kermanshah Province, Based on Analysis of New Finds Column Bases, Shafts and Stone Bases

This article dedicated to a number of stone column bases, shafts and stone bases belonging to the historical period that have been discovered during the last one or two decades from excavations, surveys and accidental discoveries in the Kermanshah province. In this article, based on an analytical-descriptive method and a comparative approach, we try to introduce these stone column bases, estimate their data as much as possible and evaluating their function regarding their geographical location and their archaeological context. Finally, we try to answer the question whether all the stone bases discovered from the Kermanshah region are column bases and belong to the columned buildings?, or probably had a function other than column bases?. However, due to the lack of publication of surveys results in most parts of the region, as well as the lack of excavations in most sites with stone bases, the importance and role of these sites is not understandable in the settlement models of the area and the nature of the buildings and the archaeological context of stone findings is not clear to us, but most likely the column bases of this study provide us clues of various buildings including governmental palaces to manor houses. On the other hand, regarding to findings of the Chahar Taq of Mil-e Milageh and the fire temple of Palang Gerd, as well as the stone bases discovered from the Fire Temple of Sorkh Kotal, it can be accepted that at least some of these stone bases do not have a function as column bases and are not related to the columned buildings, but probably Some of them have been used in the central spaces of the sacred sites such as Zoroastrian fire temples. It will certainly be difficult to understand this without considering the archaeological context of these findings, but it should be noted that stone bases outside of the archaeological context do not necessarily have to be assumed as column bases that have borne the ceiling. We admit, however, that if some of these stone bases had not been found in archaeological contexts such as fire temples, we would not able to distinguish between their functions as stone bases with specially usage in temples with the architectural usual column bases.