On 27 April 2018, the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago published on their Facebook page an image of what may be the only extant excerpt of Hadrian’s lost autobiography. Written shortly before Hadrian’s death, this autobiography appears to have taken the form of a series of letters to Antoninus Pius.
The only known copy of Hadrian’s lost autobiography in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Interesting Carole. Such a pity there isn’t more of Hadrian’s biography.
Amazing that this scrap survived.