“ This Salome is the only one of the three who is mentioned in the New Testament (Matt. xiv. 3 sqq.; Mark vi. 17 sqq.) and only in connexion with the execution of John the Baptist. Herod Antipas, pleased by her dancing, offered her a reward “unto the half of my kingdom”; instructed by Herodias, she asked for John the Baptist's “head in a charger” [1] (see Herod II. Antipas) . Salome is also the name of one of the women who are mentioned as present at the Crucifixion (Mark xv. 40) , and afterwards in the Sepulchre (xvi. 1) . ”