Revelation 18:9-24, kings, merchants and the cargo list

The mourners are those who profited: kings, merchants and shipowners (the cultural backgrounds notes; Keener). John reworks Ezekiel 27's cargo list for Tyre, fifteen of his twenty-nine items appearing there (Beale; the study Bibles), and the cultural backgrounds article Rome's Imports says he "updates it accurately for the trade realities of first-century Rome"; Wright and Bird, after Bauckham, see Babylon as Rome's political power and Tyre as its economic power. Keener and the article differ on origins: gold from North Africa or mostly from Spain, where mine slaves rarely lived long; cinnamon from China or most probably Somalia. About 200,000 families in Rome got grain free while children starved in some of the lands that grew it (the article; Keener). The list ends with human beings, "the gravest injustice of the empire" (the cultural backgrounds notes); "Asia exported a large quantity of humans to Rome", probably through Ephesus (the article). Beale reads bodies and souls as one phrase for slaves; Keener separates human lives, perhaps kept for the arena. Heiser sees a power that controls trade, with "a more sinister intelligence" behind it that wants worship. The silenced mill, lamp and wedding reverse Jeremiah 25:10 (the cultural backgrounds notes; Keener).