Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
5. single built works (built environment)
6. [single built works by specific type]
7. [single built works by function]
8. residential structures
9. dwellings
10. houses
11. [houses by location or context]
12. [houses by location: settlement area]
13. rural houses
14. country houses
15. villas

Anotations

Scope note:

Elegant seaside villas built along the coasts of Italy by members of the Roman elite beginning by the late second century BC. The extravagant pursuits associated with the villa maritima were contrasted in ancient Roman literature with the austere and responsible virtues of its countryside counterpart, the villa rustica, which came equipped with working farm. Villae maritimae generally conformed to one of two basic architectural types, the peristyle and porticus villa plans.