» For the Renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1532-1625), see Sofonisba Anguissola. For the American activist Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866-1948), see Sophonisba Breckinridge. Sophonisba (also Sophonisbe, Sophoniba; in Punic, Saphanba'al) (fl. 203 BC) was a Carthaginian noblewoman who lived during the Second Punic War, and the daughter of Hasdrubal Gisco Gisgonis (son of Gisco). Life A celebrated beauty, until 206, she'd been betrothed to Massinissa, the leader of the Massylian (or ea… (More on Sophonisba)