This top from a Roman column is decorated with a carved design and some traces of red ... this capital would have made up a whole column. Columns were used in Roman architecture in colonnades ...

It’s also told in 155 scenes carved in a spiral frieze on a monumental column ... and his team have found evidence of Roman military know-how and Greek architectural and artistic influences.

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.