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Geraldine Margaret Harmsworth King (1953 – October 12, 2009) was an archaeologist and scholar of Ancient North Arabian inscriptions.

Life
King was born in 1953 ....

She gained her degree at Durham University in the north of England.

In 1986 and 1987 she was in Jordan where as part of her PhD she transcribed about 1,500 inscriptions in Hismaic. She is crediited with making the first systematic study and this work served as the basis for a draft of a PhD. Even though her thesis was never formally completed it has become an important reference and the text is available.

In 1988 she published her epigraphic survey of Wadi Judayid in what she called a preliniary report.

Death and legacy
King died in 2009. Her work in creditted in creating OCIANA ... which is