Definitions
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: 'spinning-women', cf. ἠλακάτη 'distaff', nominative plural or dative singular
Palmer 1963, Killen 1966: occupational term, textile specialist
Variants
a-ra-ka-te-ja-o
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: genitive plural of a-ra-ka-te-ja
a-ra-te-ja-o
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: defective spelling for a-ra-ka-te-ja-o
References
Chadwick, John and Michael Ventris, 1973 Documents in Mycenaean Greek
Killen, John T., 1966 Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (BICS) 13 "The Knossos Lc (Cloth) tablets"
Palmer, Leonard R., 1963 Interpretation of Mycenaean Greek Texts