On the south wall of the peristyle garden was an arched niche. The niche sat 0.70m above the ground and had a turned-over tile as its base. The interior of the niche was originally coated in stucco. However, the interior of the niche had been closed up. Within the materials used to close the niche were fragments of a tufa altar and a coin of Ebusus (214-150 B.C.) This, along with a statue of a female deity and further coins found in a waste pit, suggests that the niche was not used since the establishment of Pompeii as a Roman colony.