The Jockey of Artemision is generally dated to the 2nd century BC, around 150–140 BC.
It is a large Hellenistic bronze showing a young rider leaning forward on a racehorse. The horse and jockey were recovered from a shipwreck off Cape Artemision on Euboea and are now displayed together in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
The work is unusually valuable because so few large original Greek bronzes survived antiquity. Many bronze statues were melted down and reused for their metal, whereas this group remained underwater after the ship sank. Its energetic composition, tense horse, and intensely focused rider contrast with the calm idealism associated with much earlier Classical sculpture.
The exact original setting and commission remain uncertain. Some scholars have connected it with an equestrian victory monument, while others have proposed that the group was being transported as part of a cargo of artworks. The 2nd-century-BC date is therefore the standard quiz answer, not the 4th or 5th century BC.