Trajan's column

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Q1: What is important about Trajan's column?
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Many statues were built to recognise the triumphs of the emperors. But no other emperor had a column built for him.

Trajan's column was built in the courtyard of Trajan's Forum. The column is just over 30m high and wrapped around it in a spiral is one of the world's greatest ever works of sculpture.

The sculpture tells the story of Trajan and his army fighting the people of Dacia (now Romania).