The only NT Salome of course is the infamous one.    

  

Mark puts a Salome at the crucifixion (Mk 15:40) and among the women at the tomb (Mk 16:1).

Stephen said

Porphyry said

 The only NT Salome of course is the infamous one.    

  

Mark puts a Salome at the crucifixion (Mk 15:40) and among the women at the tomb (Mk 16:1).

  

Thanks for the correction!  It turns out that the infamous Salome is not actually named in the accounts we have in Mark and Matthew, merely identified as the daughter of Herodias.  It was Josephus who named her and apparently all writers since have followed him.   

  

Interesting; I hadn’t realized that. 

I would add, at the risk of hijacking the thread, I continue to be perplexed by the gospels’ casually naming obscure figures. And the names they offer for who did what, frequently don’t match up with each other. 

Were these figures known personally to their audience? 
Were they known by reputation? 
Were the people largely forgotten, and these names in the gospels are echos of some historically reliable tradition (but then, why are they mentioned so casually, as though the names meant something to the reader? And if they are historical echos, why do the gospels so frequently give different names for what is evidently the same person?)
Were the names just invented out of whole cloth to make the narrative more convincing; perhaps even as a ploy to make the gospel seem more primitive than it actually was, you know, pretend your audience is familiar with a bunch of now forgotten members of the primitive Jesus movement?