The numerous works of art found at the end of the 19th century (during the construction works of the new Esquiline district) testify to the collecting taste of Mecaenas and the luxury lavished in the furnishings of this suburban residence, like other "horti". Several marble fountains, pointedly mirroring the unparalleled gardens around them, blur the line between the tamed cultivation and human imitation of nature. Among these animal likenesses stand out the horn-shaped rhyton signed by the Greek artist Pontios, now displayed in the Capitoline Museums, a refined relief with a Dionysian subject derived from Hellenistic models of the 2nd century BC, the so-called statue of the dying Seneca, a relief with dancing Maenads inspired by Greek models from the end of the 5th century BC, the head of an Amazon copy of an original dated 5th century BC and the statue of Marsyas in pavonazzetto marble and a statue of a dog in green marble (serpentine moschinato).