During the late Hellenistic age, flourishing workshops produced pottery that circulated through short-range trading routes in the areas around the Ionian-Adriatic basin. There were many black gloss ware workshops on the opposite shores, and we can recognize different regional productions. This kind of tableware is typical of the pre-Roman period but it was produced until the late Republican age and, sometimes, also in the early Roman Imperial age. Also in the Salento peninsula, some ateliers have been identified, thanks to kilns remains or other production indicators. In particular, this paper aims to discuss the data from the settlement of Vaste, inland of Otranto, and to propose an analysis of different shapes of black gloss ware in relation to different find contexts.