What is the name of the distinctively Egyptian sculptural convention, seen from the Old Kingdom onward, where a seated figure is shown with a blank, solid block between the legs?

• A Ka statue
• B Reserve head
• C Serdab portrait
• D Block statue ✓

The block statue (known to Egyptologists by the French term 'statue cube') depicts a squatting figure with knees drawn to the chest and arms crossed above, the body reduced to a compact cubic form — an innovation of the Middle Kingdom that became one of the most common sculptural types in temple contexts.