Ermete Pierotti (born July 10, 1820, in Pieve Fosciana, † 1888) was an Italian engineer and archaeologist from Modena in Italy who lived in the mid-19th century.

They owned a house and a chapel in the Pontardeto district of the municipality of Pieve Fosciana, where the family members were buried.

During this time, he visited Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Acrocorinth, Mantineia, Eleusis, Megara, Mycenae, Messina, Argos, Marathon, Chaeronea, Paros and Aegina.

In 1854, Pierotti arrived in Jerusalem after being selected by the Pasha to serve as a consultant for the renovation work on the Temple Mount, and was put in charge of repairing the city's water system.

[6] He is one of the first to make known the remnants of Second Temple period walls beneath the foundations of newly built structures in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem.

[7][8] During Pierotti's eight-year tenure in the country, he visited the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and made a detailed layout and map of the place.

[10]Pierotti attempted to identify Second Temple period sites described by Josephus, and built upon Ernst Gustav Schultz's [de] and Barclay's research and expanded it.