  We calculate the density contrast of the Shapley Supercluster (SSC) based on
the enhanced abundance of X-ray clusters in it using the extended
Press-Schechter formalism. We derive a total SSC mass of
M_tot=(4.4+-0.44)x10^{16} M_sun within a sphere of 50 Mpc centered at a
distance of about 160 Mpc. The nonlinear fractional density contrast of the
sphere is (1+delta)=1.76+-0.17 relative to the mean matter density in the
Universe, but the contrast increases in the interior of the SSC. Including the
cosmological constant, the SSC region is found to be gravitationally unbound.
The SSC contributes only a minor portion (9.0%+-2.1%) of the peculiar velocity
of the local group.
