<p>A fairly large and prosperous villa on the W bank of the *Tiber, excavated in the gardens of Villa Farnesina during the construction of the Tiber embankments in 1879 (Fiorelli; cf. Lugli 5-6; Beyen n.2 for bibliography). Remains of a vast complex of wine-cellars, the <i>cellae Vinariae Nova et Arruntiana</i> (of uncertain date but most probably post-Augustan) lay immediately to its SE.</p> <p>The monumental villa was symmetrically planned with a hemispherical extension and a set of terraces and gardens cascading toward the Tiber. The villa is often associated with contemporary Augustan monuments to its SE along the river: the *Sepulcrum: C. Sulpicius Platorinus (18 B.C.) and the *Pons Agrippae (Taylor 85).</p> <p>The building complex is dated on stylistic grounds by its well-preserved late Second-Style wall-decorations which the most recent art-historical scholarship assigns to the early part of the Augustan period, <i>c</i>. 20 B.C. (Ling). However, the Farnesina wall-paintings are also referred to as transitional or early Third Style, in which case their date ranges from 20 to 10 B.C. (for a review of the debate, Clarke). Bragantini and de Vos suggest a particular Augustan-Agrippan workshop initiated the Egyptianizing Third Style. Based upon its construction techniques, a slightly higher date for the building complex is proposed, of 35-25 B.C. (Beyen 10). Its architectural design is often found as innovative as its paintings (Favro). Due in part to its proximity in date and location to the *Pons Agrippae, the villa may have belonged to Agrippa and Julia, thereby dating its construction to 19 B.C. (Beyen 15-21), but there is no conclusive evidence to prove this hypothesis.</p>