access the Black Sea Trade Project at:  

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/NearEast/sinop/SinopIntro.htm [please change your bookmarks!]

meanwhile, here's quick info:

The Black Sea Trade Project is an interdisciplinary study of trade systems in the Black Sea over the past 5,000 years and their effects on local cultures and economies.  The project focuses on the hinterland and port of Sinop (ancient Sinope), an important Greek and Roman colony at the midpoint of the Turkish Black Sea coast. Our long-term goal is to document the development of Sinop and its hinterland from mountaintop to ocean bottom using techniques that will disturb the archaeological record as little as possible.

quick contacts:

Fredrik T. Hiebert, Director, Black Sea Trade Project Owen P. Doonan, Director, Sinop Regional Survey Alex Gantos, Assistant Director, Sinop Regional Survey David Smart, Director, Sinop Museum Classical Ceramics Catalog