קערת אבן הנושאת את הכתובת "הרקנוס" מחניון גבעתי, עיר דוד.

A fragment of a chalk bowl bearing the name Hyrcanus was unearthed in the Givati excavations at the northern end of the City of David hill. This bowl, typical of the stone vessels of the Second Temple period in Jerusalem, was found sealed beneath the foundations of a ritual bath (miqveh). Its secure archaeological context along with typological criteria date this bowl to the Hasmonean period. The inscription on the bowl consists of the name Hyrcanus and another word of which only the letter ל is preserved. It is written in the Jewish, non-calligraphic script typical of the 1st century BCE–1st century CE. Due to the somewhat lower position of the letter ל in relation to the name Hyrcanus, the inscription can be interpreted as consisting of either two lines or as one line. Based upon the epigraphic evidence cited in this paper, it appears that the name Hyrcanus was relatively common during the late Second Temple period.