On the first floor, the materials are displayed in the corridors and rooms (created in the original cells of the convent) located on three sides of the building which develops around the cloister below. Along the corridors there are display cases that house the CD materials. Antiquarium, i.e. ceramic, clay, bronze and stone objects, mostly for funerary purposes, which in the original exhibition of the Museum (1968) had been grouped by type and decontextualized. On the north side of the building, rooms 1-4 complete the display of the funerary objects on the ground floor, hosting those from the necropolis of S. Antonio (4th-1st century BC) and the late Republican ones, relating to cremations, discovered in via Giannuzzi and via Urso. Room 5 is instead dedicated to the Messapian walls of Ugento, also hosting some large parallelepiped blocks of calcarenite. On the east side of the building, in rooms 6, 7, 11 and 12, materials from the ancient Ugentine port of Torre San Giovanni are exhibited, both from the excavations of 1975-1976 and from those which involved the necropolis investigated in 2014-2016; among the former, in particular, those from the High Hellenistic period should be mentioned, coming from the place of worship dedicated to Artemis Bendis, to whom room 7 is dedicated. Room 14 then houses materials from the prehistoric and protohistoric era, not only from Ugento but also from Leuca. On the west side of the building, in rooms 15-19, the numismatic section is displayed, with coins that cover a broad chronological span between the 5th century. B.C. and the 17th-18th centuries. A.D.; Of particular note are the bronze issues from the Messapian mint of Ugento (3rd-2nd century BC) and a hoard of silver denarii from the early 2nd-early 1st century. B.C. Finally, room 20 presents a selection of medieval ceramic materials produced in Ugentina, pertaining to a kiln drain found in via Madonna della Luce in 1974 and some vases recovered from a drain pit discovered in via Messapica in 2005.

G. Scardozzi