 The frescoes come from various cubicula, or bedrooms that served as places of sociability and business, along the villa’s southern hallway that overlooks the bay of Naples.The frescoes that were excavated are now shared between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Archaeological Museum of Naples

It is commonly accepted that the villa itself was built between 21 and 16 B.C.The excavation of the villa uncovered a roof tile inscribed "Papillus Agrippae Tuberi Fabio consulibus."