Known as an ‘egg-tray’ or ‘egg-stand’, this object was clearly designed to carry cups. It was excavated in the south-east area of the Palace, around the House of the Sacrificed Oxen.
Bibliography
Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, pp. 307-308, fig. 178
Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 24