Rectangular mosaic, surrounded by a wide herring bone pattern border, consists of a Greek dedicatory inscription in six lines, black tesserae on a whitish ground:
"Under the very holy bishop Flavianos, the very honorable Eusebios, having been charged with the administration of the church, the priest Dorys has the whole of the mosic of the exedra made."

Excavated from the church of Kaoussie, Antioch. Fabian was bishop of Antioch between 381 and 404.

Antioch-on-the-Orontes, II, The Excavations, 1933-1936 (Princeton), 40, Fig. 37, Inscription 3 and Pl. 49, fig. 68.

D. Levi, Antioch Mosaic Pavements (Princeton, 1947), 283 ff, 626.

G. Richter, Catalogue of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (Cambridge, MA, 1956), no. 41.

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1955), no. 285.

S. Campbell, The Mosaics of Antioch (The Corpus of Mosaic Pavements in Turkey) (Toronto, 1988), 44 (IV A 18c), pls. 131, 132. Xerox in dossier.

Antioch Mosaics, A Corpus, ed. F. Cimok (Istanbul, 2000), 226.

Excavated at Antioch, Syria, 1933-1936 (5528-M97; 12-F; Kaoussie church, Room 7);

Acquired by Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss from the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity, Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology, in return for their support of the excavations, 1938;

Collection of Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, D.C., until November 29, 1940;

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.