Maria Teresa Manni Piraino (also known as Maria Teresa Piraino Manni)[1] was an Italian classical scholar and epigrapher.
She worked extensively on the Greek inscriptions of ancient Sicily, with a particular interest in the archaic period.
Her methodology was characterized by a careful attention towards integrating the archeological context and material features of each inscription with its linguistic ones.
[2] In 1973, she published the Iscrizioni greche lapidarie di Museo di Palermo, the leading catalogue for Greek inscriptions in Western Sicily, noted for its Selinuntine material and "virtually complete illustration".
[3] Lazzarini attributes to her work a persistent interest in indigenous Sicilian epigraphy at the University of Palermo.