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The chart displays the frequency with which various grocery categories were mentioned in inheritance inventory documents, broken down by decade.
Each mention of a product within a category is counted separately; for example, if a document lists two products from the same category, both are counted individually. Only one category is preselected, but additional categories can be displayed by selecting the category labels on the left. Main categories are shown in bold, subcategories in regular text, and sub-subcategories in italics.
Please note that for some main categories, the sum of mentions across subcategories may be lower than the total shown for the main category, as certain products are not assigned to any subcategory.

For this chart, the total number of product mentions per decade was used to normalize the counts from the previous chart.

This chart shows the recorded prices of selected goods and how they changed over time.
The goods represented in this chart have been selected based on the availability and reliability of historical price data. The selection draws on Şevket Pamuk’s study, İstanbul ve Diğer Kentlerde 500 Yıllık Fiyatlar ve Ücretler 1469 - 1998 : 500 Years of Prices and Wages in Istanbul and Other Cities (Ankara: Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü, 2000). This comprehensive work provides detailed records of prices and wages spanning over five centuries in Istanbul and other key cities.
The scatter plot shows individual recorded prices. Where prices were recorded in keyl, they have been converted to kıyye using the conversion rate of 1 keyl = 20 kıyye, also based on Pamuk’s study.
The trend line was calculated using simple linear regression via the ordinary least squares method, which models the overall direction of price change over time.