The manuscript designated Ashmolean Parchment AN 1981.940 contains a love spell in Coptic (written in a Hermopolitan dialect) regarding male homosexuality.
This vellum leaf was obtained by the British Egyptologist Francis Llewellyn Griffith from an Egyptian avocat named Fanous.
[4] Its provenance is unknown, but the dialect suggests somewhere in middle Egypt, perhaps Hermopolis and its surrounding areas.
[1] The English translation from the Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects of the University of Würzburg:[3][1] [magical words: Celtatalbabal.
He will seek after me from village to village, from city to city, from field to field, from land to land, until he comes to me and he subjects himself beneath my feet – me, Apapolo, the son of Nooe – his hands filled with all good things, until I fulfil with him the desire of my heart and the request of my soul in a good desire and an unbreakable affection, now, now, quickly, quickly, do my work!