These include female figures with raised arms, labrys double axes (Λάβρυες, labryes) and opium poppy flowers or capsules, two double axes with indented edges, the Horns of Consecration symbol, and a sun-like disc with complex markings, which has been claimed by some researchers to be for making objects to use in astronomical predictions of solar and lunar eclipses.

Very interesting objects are shown on the front of Plate Α, as recognised by Arthur Evans, who described them in his book The Palace of Minos at Knossos in 1921.

[6] In 2013, five scientists published a paper in the Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry journal, in which they described the 85 by 85 millimetres (3.3 in × 3.3 in) sun-like form on Plate Α as a casting mould for manufacturing a spoked disc, which was used in the Minoan times of the 15th century BC as a sun dial, for establishing the geographical latitude and for predicting solar and lunar eclipses.

[8][9] He described together with Efstratios Theodosiou the smaller round image to the right of the female figure as a Minoan cosmology model with the planetary system above the Flat Earth, in which the cross that symbolises the sun is surrounded by 18 dots and those including the crescent-shaped moon symbol are surrounded by 28 dots, an indication hinting at the Saros cycle with 28 lunar eclipses in 18 years.

[10] They interpret the spoked disc on the other side of the female figurine, which is associated with Titaness Rhea, as a portable analog calculator, which was created 1400 years before the Antikythera mechanism.

In 1927, Martin P. Nilsson compared the style of the female figurine of Plate Α with those on various Minoan-Mycenaean gold rings and a relief on the Hagia Triada sarcophagus.

[12] Stylianos Alexiou endorsed in 1958 the dating as belonging to Late Minoan III, but he noted the differences in the gesture, as the female figurines hold something in their hands.

[15] Xanthoudidis described the objects in March 1900 in an article ("Ancient moulds from Sitia in Crete") in the journal of the Archaeological Society of Athens.