Pirama was an ancient city in
Sicily on the road from Panormus (modern
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
) to Agrigentum (modern
Agrigento), mentioned in the
Antonine Itinerary
The Antonine Itinerary ( la, Itinerarium Antonini Augusti, "The Itinerary of the Emperor Antoninus") is a famous ''itinerarium'', a register of the stations and distances along various roads. Seemingly based on official documents, possibly ...
(It. Ant. 97.1). Modern scholarship places the site at Sant'Agata in the ''
comune'' of
Piana degli Albanesi, where pottery sherds covering 40,000 m
2 have been found.
[R.J.A. Wilson, Archaeology in Sicily 1988-1995, Archaeological Reports, No. 42 (1995-96), pp. 59-123.]
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