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| Salome Window |
The Moorish conqueror Ishbar converted the Cathedral of St. Gorboduc into a mosque, adding a window named for this person [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 34].
You've got two choices: 1) daughter of Herod Philip and Herodias. She is generally supposed to be the daughter who danced to obtain the head of John the Baptist; or 2) one of the women who ministered to Jesus, who beheld his crucifixion, and who brought offerings to his tomb. Many identify her with the wife of Zebedee.
"Let's hope it was the first Salome," suggests Bowen. "This Salome was one who is alleged to have danced the 'Dance of the Seven Veils' in order to work Herod up to a state where he couldn't deny her anything before making her request. The story of Salome as I've heard it indicates that she was put up to this by her mother Herodias, the wife of Herod (who was apparently not her father) because Herodias was offended by the prophet's denunciations of the royals' decadent lifestyle. Salome #1 is the subject of many Renaissance paintings. Salome #2 may have been a very worthy woman, but probably had less to offer the artist as a subject. Of course, John was writing with a blithe disregard for the Islamic attitude toward representations of the human (or indeed mammalian) form."
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