The rooms in which most of the paintings and sculptures were found have been called shrines, perhaps misleadingly even if no more than the rituals of a fertility cult are implied. The inhabitants probably made no more distinction between ritual and domestic spheres than do small-scale societies still surviving today, such as the Nuba in Africa. However, findings in these particular rooms include wall- paintings(in natural colors, sometimes polychrome, mixed with fat and painted with a brush on a fine white plaster ground), plaster reliefs, animal