Overnight I found that no less a source than Strabo used the Z- viz. X- sound term χωρμετρέω for "to measure a country", as χώρα means "land, country, place, spot" and χωρμέτρης "land surveyor", so that our assumption here of a Z-sound for ZE and the concept of earth measure was correct.
There is first a scan of a "syllabic" table excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.
That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see some "filler" material. After I get all the syllables online, I will clean up the individual pages by making images of the various signs and uploading them to eliminate the current text resolution deficiencies, but it is a massive amount of tedious extra graphics work, so I am not doing it right now, as it is not essential for online purposes. One can see the full grid for the syllable on the scanned image.
The Syllable ZE update 1 in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
| ZE Signs here are either measuring sticks or the seed heads of wheat which look similar to a marked measuring stick. monococcum There is overlap with geo- and the syllable GE, indicating several terms for “Earth” in use. Normally expected (geometry – “earth measure“) but one sees that there was also a Z- syllable term such as in the earth", viz. Sumerian for “measure a country” Compare γεόομαι “to become Earth” with Latvian zeme, Lithuanian žeme, Old Prussian semme “Earth” | Cypriot syllabary No Cypriot sign known. _______ Egyptian The Djed Pillar is associated with Memphis, the Summer Solstice and immortality and ostensibly measures the 3 or 4 seasons (it varies) as symbols of life. (for more observations see columns right) | Linear B 𐀽(74) ZE measuring stick (the semi-circle could represent any number of things: water itself or perhaps a plumb for measuring the depth of water Egyptian See also my discussion online of the | Phaistos Disk 𐇜 ZE “Einkorn” triticum monococcum Sumerian ZIZ “emmer wheat” Egyptian ZWT “wheat” | No comparable Axe sign __________ Example of an Egyptian Nilometer, here somewhat idealized versus the original source Nilometer (idealized) based on an illustration Jnbw-n-JTY gnomon at Memphis DJED | Elamite ZE measuring stick with markings Sumerian ZAG “boundary, border” Did the Sumerian sign below precede Egyptian DJED? ZA4 #133) | Sumerian ZE Ryan: "stick with pennant stuck upright in water, used as a height-marker for its rising" ŠE “grain, barley” |