Abstract
The erection of steles and rock reliefs by the Assyrians was effected by consecration rituals. In royal inscriptions, the information about the structure of those ceremonies is scarce. However, resorting to the visual record of the bronze bands that decorated one set of gates of the Assyrian palace of Imgur-Enlil (Tell Balawat), depicting several stages of the institution of some of such monuments by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, it may be possible to establish degrees of intertextuality between the two supports (visual and written) and to realise if the texts reflect themselves the exact structure of the rituals. It is the purpose of this paper to contribute thus to a better knowledge of those rituals, that were integral to the Assyrian empire’s ideological structures.
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