Apart from the bird stele above, it is not clear to me that any of this is grave art. It is more like permanent advertisements for the animal contests in the Roman arenas in which gladiators would fight animals in various places in the Empire, including in the province of Asia where these steles were found. The last one is probably meant to be Asclepius, since that is his symbol in the right part of the stone.
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