Cuneiform in Georgia

I recently read that in 1964 a Mrs. Joe Horn of LaGrange, Georgia was weeding her flower bed and unearthed a lead cuneiform tablet with a date corresponding to 2040 BCE. If valid, this would seem to be a major “…the hell?” find, but I haven’t found anything but blip information about it. Does anybody know any more about this find (or if it was a hoax)?

Supposedly it’s in the possession of LaGrange College, but there’s no mention on their web site (and since LaGrange College is very small [1000 students] and not well known, you’d think it would be a pretty big deal to them).

Lots of Georgians are cunnilingual, so it’s not surprising. :wink:

Just 'cause it was found there, doesn’t mean that was its place of origin.

I’ll bet she had a child or grandchild in university at the time.

Where did you read it?

sounds like a hoax or a mistake. It’s not like Georgia hasn’t had its hoaxes, like that “sea monster” that was spotted in the Altamaha River a few years ago, which was subsequently discovered to be a hoax and was named Altimaha-ha.

Then again, the Surrency Spot is real.

Google gets zero hits on this. Did you misspell it?

Surrency Spook Light

(Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal
pocket and refracted the light from Venus)

There was kind of a fad in the 1800s where people supposedly dug up ancient tablets, etc. The Bat Creek Stone, The Heavener Runestone, etc. Back in the day, people fancied it was from the “lost tribes of Israel” or vikings, etc.

The Surrency Spot is a lens-shaped geological anamoly that’s a couple of miles beneath Surrency, Georgia. It was discovered during a geological survey of south Georgia. There were a few reports in the newspaper when it was discovered back in the 80s, but nothing new has come of it, so I’m not surprised that it doesn’t Google well. Nobody knows what caused it or why it’s there, but apparently it shouldn’t be there.

I figure it’s an Elder Gods hangout from the Cthulhu Mythos.

Hmmmmm. Road trip!:cool:

Here is an article that mentions the cuneiform tablet and also says that it is not at LaGrange college. The fact that they don’t mention it on their web site doesn’t mean anything; it looks like it is associated with some fringe theories and most colleges attempt to separate themselves from that sort of thing.

And, here is a site that mentions both the Surrency Bright Spot and the Surrency Light. A twofer!

While we’re at it, I’ll also mention Fort Mountain State Park in Georgia which contains a stone wall the origin of which is unknown. (A lot of people seem to associate it with Prince Madoc for some reason.)

Oops. Remove the “not” from that first sentence so that it reads “…also says that it is at LaGrange college.”

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