Editing Trajan's Column (section)

===Design===
The column shows 2,662 figures and 155 scenes; Trajan himself appears on the column 58 times.<ref name="Curry">{{cite web|last1=Curry|first1=Andrew|title=Trajan's Amazing Column|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/trajan-column/article.html|access-date=11 April 2018|website=National Geographic}}</ref>

The continuous helical frieze winds 23 times from base to capital and was an architectural innovation in its time.<ref name="Dillon">{{cite book|last1=Dillon|first1=Sheila|title=Representation of War in Ancient Rome |publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=244–270}}</ref> The design was adopted by later emperors such as [[Marcus Aurelius]]. The narrative band expands from about {{convert|1|m|ft|abbr=off}} at the base of the column to {{convert|1.2|m|ft|1|abbr=off}} at the top.<ref>{{cite book |title=Art History |author1=[[Marilyn Stokstad]] |author2=Michael W. Cothren |year=2011 |edition=4th |location=Boston |publisher=Prentice Hall}}</ref> 
The scenes unfold continuously. Often a variety of different perspectives are used in the same scene, so that more can be revealed (''e.g.'', a different angle is used to show men working behind a wall).