but considerably higher up, almost midway between the withers and the cheek-bone.
Sometimes it is of uniform width while often it narrows greatly as it approaches the back of the neck.

It is generally patterned, and appears to have been a mere flat leathern band.

It is impossible to say in what exact way the pole was attached to it, though in the later sculptures we have elaborate representations of the fastening.

The earlier sculptures seem to append to the collar one or more patterned straps, which, passing round the horse's belly immediately behind the fore legs, served to keep it in place, while at the same time they were probably regarded as ornamental; but under the later kings these belly Lands were either reduced to a single strap, or else dispensed with altogether.
The breast-ornament consists commonly of a fringe, more or less complicated.

The simplest form, which is that of the most ancient times, exhibits a patterned strap with a single row of long tassels pendent from it, as in the annexed representation.