This campaign concentrated on opening new areas and continuing those opened in previous years. At the same time, the first pollen analyses and studies of the villa’s architectural and sculptural decoration began, with the aim of reconstructing the natural landscape and garden spaces of the Hadrianic complex.

Trench 2 in the south-eastern corner of the orchestra and ima cavea was extended as far the highest part of the seating tiers. The excavation revealed important relationships with the only part of the theatre in which the make up for the tiers is still preserved.

The extension of trench 16 involved continuing the excavation of the tufa embankment separating the terraces close to the theatre towards the north terrace. The suggestion that a portico existed on the west side of the theatre having been discarded, the work in this trench documented the spatial layout of this area and confirmed that a viridarium was incorporated into the terrace next to the theatre.

The work in trench 17 revealed the existence of a nymphaeum with exedra closing the space between the scene building and the containing wall delimiting the theatre to the east. A channel drained water from the nymphaeum into a drain cut into the tufa.

Trench 20 (enlargement of trench 6) aimed to identify the closure of the new portico situated on the upper terrace on the Greek theatre’s west side and to better define the size of the building. The results confirmed that the portico was part of a system of terraced constructions and was of considerable size.

New trenches, 18 and 19 were opened. Trench 18 was opened with the intention of completing the documentation of the lower part of the extreme western end of the seating tiers. The excavation recorded the west corner of the tier, the related parados, the beginning of the tier and the presence of the proedria. There was no evidence for a proedria at the opposite end.
Trench 19 aimed to demonstrate the existence of a porticus postscaenam. The appearance of structures in the exact point in which it was hoped to find them meant that this was to be one of the focal points of the next season’s excavations.