In August 2011, a rock-hewn burial cave was documented on Derekh Ha-Zetim Street in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem (map ref. 222220/633360; Fig. 1), while overseeing the installation of a pipe by the Gihon Company. The documentation, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, was performed by Z. ʽAdawi (surveying and photography) with the assistance of N. Zak (drafting), A. Abbasi and Y. Baruch.
The cave, hewn in hard limestone, had a shaft-like opening (L200; length 1.95 m, width 0.75 m, height 0.65 m, min. depth c. 1 m; Figs. 2, 3). Inside the cave was a main pit (L201; length 2 m, width 0.55 m, min. depth 0.65 m) flanked by two hewn arcosolia (L202, L203; length 1.3 m, width 0.68 m) found filled with soil. Two shelves (width 0.1 m) hewn above the main pit served as a support for the covering slabs used to seal the tomb. Four such slabs (average dimensions: 0.7 m, width 0.2–0.4 m, thickness 0.15 m) were discovered in situ; the rest were missing, indicating the tomb had probably been plundered in the past.