This is the best-known and most complete example of a rustic villa in the countryside around Pompeii. Built around the middle of the 1st century B.C., it consisted of single building housing the owner's residence and the farm premises. The rustic part, on the eastern side, has a room containing two lever-operated wine presses for the grapes and sleeping quarters for the farm-workers. On the southern side were the olive oil presses. In an outdoor courtyard was the cella vinaria with 84 dolia containing wine, 72 of them buried in the soil with only the top edge and the lid emerging.