We present here a study of the Roman and Byzantine amphorae discovered at Balat during the excavations there between 2010 and 2014. Our primary aim is to identify and date the amphorae types present at the site, to establish their relative frequency with regard to their origin, their possible contents and the successive phases of the site’s occupation. The sherds we have examined were used for levelling the site for building purposes during the successive phases of its occupation. The earliest structure brought to light was a Roman bathhouse that functioned from the 2nd to the 4th century AD. It was replaced by a sizeable church, in use from the 4th or 5th century until the 6th century AD, which in turn was replaced by a smaller one between the 7th and the 11th centuries. The evidence suggests that in the bathhouse phase, wine, as well as olive oil and perhaps salted fish or fish sauce, all local products, were consumed at the site, and also wine from Heraclea Pontica and oil from the Aegean region. The amphorae associated with the first and second phases of the church were for oil and wine, contents probably in both phases related to the Christian liturgy in addition to individual consumption. In the early church, the amphorae represent containers for products from the Colchis and the Aegean or Mediterranean. When this church was replaced in the 7th century, it coincided with the time when the production of amphorae at Sinope had ceased. Instead, at some point during the 8th century or 9th century AD, imported jug-amphorae represented the only ceramic transport containers present at the site. We tentatively attribute these to a production center in the Eastern Black Sea. Overall, the amphorae recovered at Balat provide an interesting assemblage. This is the first time at Sinope we have had the opportunity to study these vessels in the context where they circulated and their contents were consumed before they were subsequently deposited. In other words, the material provides some evidence for local consumption patterns, in the sense of learning the relative proportion of local and non-local, i.e., imported, amphorae-transported consumables to Sinope, and where and for what reason their contents were distributed.