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Nothing in the text you quoted says that it is a twelve sided die, only that twelve faces of the die are numbered. That part of the statement doesn't tell you how many faces there are in total.

From wikipedia:

> 1 eighteen-sided die with the numbers "1" through "16" and characters meaning "win" and "lose" [not listed in the inventory]

From the article:

"Archaeologists think this 14-face die was used to play a game called "bo" that hasn't been played in 1,500 years."