Key:inscription
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Text which is written on an object. 
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| Group: annotations |
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| Status: de facto |
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The key =* is used for the text of inscriptions on buildings, memorials, advertising signs, and other objects.
How to map
Inscription represents text physically found on the feature in the real world.
| or the spaced slash / may be used to represent 
line breaks and || or the spaced double slash // to paragraph breaks depending on the style guide preferred.
iD editor uses real new line character - U+000A (one byte) for line breaks and U+000A, U+000A (two bytes) for paragraph breaks, which might be preferred because real objects can contain the pipe | or slash /characters.
Limited length
As for all values, there is a limit of 255 characters for the value of =*
Referencing other data services
To overcome the length limit, the inscription might be added to:
wikidata=*- If this feature has a Wikidata item, it can be described there using![[W]](./Wikidata-logo.svg.png)
inscription (Property:P1684), as the character limit is set at 1,500.openplaques:id=<ID number>- If it is a commemorative/historical plaque, you can also add the full inscription to openplaques.org and then link the entry with the OSM object.:url=*- URL where the inscription can be found on an external website; e.g. Wikisource (useful when the inscription is longer than the above limit).
Splitting across multiple keys
Some mappers overcome the limit by splitting the value across multiple keys, e.g.
inscription:1=Beginning of very long text....inscription:2=...the end!
Related tags
description=*- Additional information about an element, containing text not existent in real world.man_made=geoglyphhistoric=epigraph, to map epigraphs (inscriptions) on their own (particularly useful to locate inscriptions on bigger objects and where there are several of them).