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I concur with nomaxim, Mediterranean origins or perhaps North African. Is there a history of French or Spanish settlement in that part of Georgia? My guess would be that is was brought by a European family that settled there.

Either that, or it's a very convincing and elegant forgery

I must say the sample hole is exceptionally shoddy, a sign of the times I guess, when larger samples were needed before digital spectroscopy and so on, but it has effectively ruined any functionality for the piece...