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Most of the Linear B tablets from Knossos deal with sheep and textile production. This paper discusses those persons who held certain responsabilities in the Knossian textile industry, in particular, the persons preceded by the preposition o-pi and the persons indicated by the abbreviations DA and TA. These persons were at an intermediate level of the administrative hierarchy.
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