**Hyrkanos** the 3rd, brother of King Aristobulus, whom Pompeius made king in year 3700, was the 10th king of the Chashmona'im. And he was a righteous man and God-fearing, and his minister was Antipater mentioned above, a pious man who did kindness and salvation for King Hyrkanos. In those days Alexander son of Aristobulus rebelled against the Romans, and Crassus, the third of the Romans, when he went out to war against the king of Persia, went by way of Yerushalayim and took from the House of HaShem 5,000 kikar of gold drachmas and vessels more than 1,000 kikar of pure gold.

And in the war of Persia all the gold was taken from him and he fell with all his people slain [(Tzeda)].