prosopographicaladj.

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. iii. 161 Those excellent Glasses..whereof the Painters of Italy use to draw the most exquisite Chorographical, Topographical, and Prosopographical Tables.

1904 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 15 63 We are not entitled to deal with this kind of information with so free an hand as in the case of certain other classes of comment, in which the ultimate sources were far from contemporary (e.g. prosopographical notes).

1959 A. G. Woodhead Study Greek Inscriptions iv. 46 This prosopographical study is particularly valuable for the social historian, but it may have its bearing on a variety of problems.

1975 D. W. S. Hunt On Spot ix. 176 While I am in the prosopographical vein I shall imitate Plutarch by completing the other leaf of the diptych with a portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Emeka Odumekwu Ojukwu, the Military Governor of the Eastern Region.

2018 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 1 Nov. (Abstr.) 635 The Relación [de sacerdotes] offers a kind of prosopographical and political snapshot of the Mexican clergy during the Cristero Rebellion.

1927 Amer. Jrnl. Archeol. 31 469 Of interest prosoprographically is the fact that (Μ)όρυχος Θριάσι(ος)..is to be identified with the Μόρυχος who made a dedication on the acropolis.

1967 A. N. Sherwin-White Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome ii. 66 The monks have also been studied prosopographically.

1999 Classical Rev. 49 314 [Papyrus number] 265 is a case of distraint for private debt, interesting in itself, and prosopographically fascinating.