This article will discuss the architectural plan of a burial system located in the lower part of Hinnom Valley (AkelDama, or Wadi A-Rababi) in Jerusalem, as well as several aspects related to the burial customs it represents. The Hinnom Valley, South of the Old City of Jerusalem, contains one of the Jerusalem's riches assembles of the rock cut tombs.

The burial system was carved in the hard limestone (Malekke), near to the Greek Orthodox convent of St. Onouphrius (Ὀνούφριος, AkelDama). This slope was used as one of the important cemeteries of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period, accommodated some complex and elaborate burial caves and has attracted researchers already during the 19th century. The plan of the burial cave consists of three burial chambers arranged in a stepped line (Chambers I–III). Another chamber (Chamber IV) was carved in a lower level, underneath Chamber I and II. The cave includes well known characteristics of Jerusalem burial caves as kokhim (burial loculi), arcosolium, and even elevated head supports which are rarer. According to the plan of the tomb and a few fragments of ossuaries the cave seems to have been carved during the 1st century CE.

A fragment of a Late Roman glass bottles (candlestick Type) reflect that this burial cave had a later reuse in the Late Roman period, probably by non-Jews. To this late phase one may associate the remains of burnt bones in Chamber II. These may be evidence for the known (though not common) practice of cremation in the polytheism population of Jerusalem in the late Roman Period.