Mehdi Rahbar, 2025, “The Sasanian Palace of Bandiãn Dargaz,” Caspian, Year 2025, Issue No. 4, pp. 173-188.

Abstract

A series of architectural spaces were discovered from the excavation of Tepe C of Bandiān Dargaz, a site revealing both the Islamic and Sasanian periods. The surface layer is related to the Ilkhanid period followed with the layer of the Sasanian period, which further consists of two phases. The architecture of the first phase is the remains of a palace, which had probably been transformed into a set of industrial-production workshops in the second phase of architecture. The remains of the palace include a pillared hall, long halls, and a part that is probably a Mithraeum and was built during the reign of Yazdgerd I.