This terracotta group (discovered by the archaeologist Paolo Orsi) represents a knight carried by a sphinx. It can be dated back to the second half of the V century b.C. and it was a part of the decoration of the acroterion on the western front of the so-called Temple of  "Casa Marafioti".

The presence of the sphinx makes possible to suppose that the young knight here represented could be a Dioscuros since we can find many alternative representations in which the Dioscuri were depicted with one or more sphinxes.

Nowadays this sculpture is preserved at the National Museum of Reggio Calabria with many other archaeological finds discovered in the area of the Temple of "Casa Marafioti".