The relief depicts Hadrian on a podium, presiding over a ceremony related to the bestowal of food aid to Roman children, and is placed on the wall of the Scalone of the Palazzo dei Conservatori in the Capitoline Museums next to the rich portal giving access to the Hall of Horatii and Curiatii. The relief comes from the Arch of Portugal on Via del Corso, demolished in 1662. The two reliefs from an arch dedicated to Hadrian, which probably stood near the temple of the deified emperor in the Campus Martius, were inserted into this late antique monument. The presence of the relief in the Capitol is known from 1664.