WALL CASE H. Restored ‘egg-tray’

Accession Number AN1924.9
Year 1700 BCE - 1600 BCE
Dimensions dia. 29.5 cm
Medium pottery
Location Ashmolean Museum
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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