The most important new data regards the first lower level of the villa and the terrace overlooking the sea. The first lower level, divided into at least six rooms, was excavated down to the level of the windowsill of the first room from the north (3.80 × 7.30 m) which comprised an anti-chamber and the room itself. Various phases were identified in the refined wall and ceiling decoration, the earliest element being the stucco work with frieze of arms on the barrel vault covering the room itself, datable to the Late Second Style (40-30 B.C.). The walls of the room and the depressed arch vault, resting on plumes, which covered the anti-chamber were painted in the Transitional Third Style. However, in 79 A.D. the decoration in the room was being renewed, probably in order to repair the damage caused by the series of tremors preceding the eruption. This theory is supported, among other things, by the incomplete stucco work in the west section of the vault above the room (where ad identicum restoration of the original Second Style stucco was underway), the trace of an unfinished brush stroke, the carbonised remains of a small scaffolding used by the painter and the small painting left unfinished by the pictor imaginarius.

Moreover, it is now known that the villa had a monumental beachside pavilion. This was constituted by a large opus signinum terrace at the centre of which was a vast chamber with an opus sectile floor, dismantled in antiquity. Its imposing walls, architectural frame and great roof beams, demolished by the violence of the eruption, were visible in the collapse. In this area, where the Amazon head and the statue of Pelophoros had already been found, many precious wooden elements clad with ivory bas-relief came to light. They were part of four different pieces of furniture, probably tripods, whose complex decoration appears heavy with elements symbolic of Dionystic religion. The opus signinum terrace terminated to the west with a large rectangular pool flanked to the south by a flight of steps leading down to the beach, which continued as a ramp to then gradually diminish into the natural rock.